August 5, 2002
 Japan Extended Grant Assistance to Iwamura Memorial Hospital
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The Embassy of Japan in Nepal has decided to extend Grant Assistance to the Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center for the implementation of the Project for the Supply of Medical Equipment to Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center in Bhaktapur in Japan's FY 2002 under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Projects (GGP) scheme of the Government of Japan.
A Grant Contract to this effect was signed in Kathmandu today between His Excellency Mr. Zenji Kaminaga, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Ms. Purnima Gurung, Executive Chairperson of Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center, Bhaktapur.
Under the project, Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center, Bhaktapur, will be provided with a whole body X-Ray CT Scan Machine. The CT Scan machine has been donated by the Rotary Club of Sakai Izumigaoka, Rotary International District 2640, Japan. The Government of Japan will bear the transportation cost for this medical equipment from Japan to Nepal.
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The Embassy of Japan is providing forty-four thousand, five hundred and fifty-seven US dollars (US$44,557), equivalent to approximately three million, four hundred and seventy-five thousand, four hundred and forty-six Nepalese rupees (NRs. 3,475,446), to implement the project. Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center will bear the operation and maintenance costs.
The hospital was established in December 2001 in Sallaghari-17, Bhaktapur, in the memory of Prof. Noboru Iwamura, a survivor of the August 6, 1945 bombing in Hiroshima, who volunteered to work in Nepal as a medical doctor in 1960 and stayed here for 18 years. To continue the work of Prof. Iwamura, Ms. Purnima Gurung and colleagues from Nepal, India and Japan have envisaged this memorial project. Established under financial assistance from the Rotary International District 2640 and 2680 Japan, the hospital provides general medical and surgical services especially on cardiology, nephrology, gastrology and neurology.
Bhaktapur district, where the hospital is located, has no CT Scan facility and patients are forced to rush to Kathmandu in case of accidents. As a consequence of this, some patients die due to lack of proper investigation and treatment. There is a cancer hospital in Bhaktapur which also frequently needs CT Scan facilitites to examine the degree of cancer growth. Implementation of the above project is expected to help timely diagnosis and treatment of the patients residing in and around the Bhaktapur district.
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