Health

Nepal

Grants and Concessional Finance

• In the Health Sector, Nepal Bharat Maitri Emergency & Trauma Centre (INR 100 cr.) at Kathmandu (first trauma centre with AIIMS like specialized facilities), B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan (125.cr), construction of 5 storied OPD complex of Bir Hospital (INR 100 cr.), Kathmandu, are some major projects.
• The Government of India is gifting ambulances  and school buses  every year to various institutions working in health and education sectors in Nepal. So far, Government of India has distributed 940 ambulances and 184 school buses in different parts of Nepal.
• As part of our COVID-19 assistance, Bharat had supplied more than 23 tonnes of medicines  and medical equipment to Nepal on Grant basis during the first wave of COVID-19. Bharat has recently resumed the supply of Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal.
• Till date, more than 9.5 million doses of these vaccines  have been sent to Nepal, both on grant and commercial basis. In order to assist Nepal to cope with the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a medical oxygen plant based on Bharat’s indigenous technology was installed at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan in August 2021.
• This plant has a capacity to serve 200 patients simultaneously. The total COVID-19 assistance provided to Nepal is more than USD 7 Million. Bharat’s efforts to ensure uninterrupted supply of medical oxygen to Nepal as well as in maintaining normal trade flows through border points even during the peak of the pandemic has been greatly appreciated in Nepal.