June 4, 2007
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Medical Equipment to TUTH Handed Over
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His Excellency Mr. Tsutomu HIRAOKA, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, handed over the medical equipment to Honorable Mr. Pradeep Kumar Nepal, Minister for Education and Sports, amidst a function held today at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu. Prof. Madhav Prasad Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of the Tribhuvan University; Prof. Dr. Trilokpati Thapa, Acting Dean, Institute of Medicine; Prof. Dr. Mahesh Khakurel, Executive Director of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and many distinguished guests were present on the occasion.
The diagnostic equipment handed over today, worth 77 million Japanese Yen, has been procured through the Non - Project Grant Assistance scheme. The equipment include ultrasound, biochemistry analyzer, blood gas analyzer, a colposcopy, CO2 incubator, ELISA analyzer each; pulse oximeters (5), bedside monitors (5) and many others. Japan provided medical equipment to the TUTH worth 25 million Japanese yen under this Non - Project Grant Assistance scheme also in FY 2003.
On the occasion, H. E. Mr. Hiraoka highlighted that good health is a basic human need, irrespective of place, time and environment and this being one of the important pillars of Japanese aid to Nepal, the Government of Japan attaches great significance to the cooperation in the field of health and medical care.
The support for the construction and development of TUTH has been one of Japan's biggest health care projects in Nepal in terms of the project scale. Number of Japanese experts including JOCV and Senior Volunteers have been dispatched to TUTH and many personnel from Nepal side have been trained in Japan. The significance of the services of TUTH, as a tertiary hospital, is that it is providing basic and specialized health services to the people coming not only from urban and peri-urban but also from rural areas of Nepal. Moreover, TUTH has long been recognized as a focal point in the country for the training of all categories of health personnel.
H. E. Mr. Hiraoka further expressed that with the utilization of the equipment handed over today, the hospital will meet the high expectations of the people requiring therapeutic care.
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