Tanahun-based Bandipur hospital has put in place an ‘isolation ward’ for providing treatment to COVID-19 suspects.<\/p>\n
The isolation ward equipped with eight beds was put in place to resist corona menace, shared Bandipur rural municipality chair and hospital management chair Purna Singh Thapa<\/p>\n
Arrangement has been made to provide treatment to corona infection suspects, collect throat swab and cough samples and send the samples to the centre for lab test, he informed.<\/p>\n
""The rural municipality also has devised public awareness and sensitization campaigns to resist coronavirus pandemic", he informed.<\/p>\n
It may be noted that the GP Koirala National Respiration Treatment Centre based in Shuklagandaki municiplaity-5, Balchautari had already set up a 12-bed isolation ward.<\/p>\n
According to the hospital’s executive director Dr Ram Kumar Shrestha, the isolation ward can be expanded up to 20 beds.<\/p>\n
50 percent waiver in business tax<\/p>\n
The rural municipality has decided to grant waiver of 50 percent in business tax taking into consideration the impacts of coronavirus in business sector.<\/p>\n
A meeting of the rural municipality on Wednesday took the decision. Rural municipality vice-chair Karuna Gurung shared that they have also urged the financial institutions to slash interest rate on loan and house owners to reduce regular house rent.<\/p>\n
"We took the decision to give waiver in business tax to help business community not to get discouraged due to coronavirus threat", he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tanahun-based Bandipur hospital has put in place an ‘isolation ward’ for providing treatment to COVID-19 suspects. The isolation ward equipped with eight beds was put…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[496,330],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bandipur","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}