Z-Medica had couriered the gauzed consignment to Nepal upon receiving special request for donating the gauze from doctor Mohan Pahari, a Nepali doctor who had worked at the company's research facility in the past and was a member of the team that was credited for developing the gauze that helps in quickly clotting the blood."The consignment was sent to Nepal, two days after I had left for Nepal. But the consignment has not reached to me so far and I am not aware where it is," said Pahari. "Whether it is stacked up somewhere in the Nepal Airlines's cargo store and lost it somewhere else, I don't know," he said expressing his disbelief at the way Nepal Airlines has been irresponsible in responding to his repeated queries for delivering the consignment to its recipient.
Nepal Share a philanthropic organization supported by some leading Nepali social activists, actors and entrepreneurs, was the recipient of the consignment. The organization was informed about the consignment's arrival and had passed on the documents as well, Dr. Pahari claimed.
"The cargo company had sent the documents to Nepal Share to inform the delivery of the drug. But when the organization approached to receive the cargo, they didn't get it," said Pahari adding that the Nepal Share intended to distribute the gauze to various hospitals in the quake hit districts as part of the organization's Nyano Sansar campaign.
"I had gone to Gorkha to take part in assisting relief and rehabilitation initiatives of some of the organizations whom we had handed over 25000 US dollars, donated by various persons and organizations in the US. But to my dismay when I returned to Kathmandu and looked out for the gauze, it was gone missing," Pahari said accusing the courier agency of utter negligence in delivering the consignment that consisted of 100 small and 1750 big packets of the gauze. Due to its ground breaking technology, the gauze is used by the US army in battle fronts.
Max Khatri, president of Nepal Share, expressed disbelief the way the cargo company had dealt with the cargo and the way it was responding to their repeated request for figuring out and delivering the cargo to them. "We were planning to distribute the gauze to various hospitals, expecting that it would assist a lot of those injured during the earthquake. We were handed the documents for the consignment but were never handed the consignment itself. I can't believe that it has vanished," Khatri said.
Meanwhile, Kamal Gyawali, an official at the Nepal Airlines' cargo department informed that the cargo was lost. "Either the cargo is misplaced here in Nepal or was left elsewhere on its way to Nepal," he said adding that the company had looked for it everywhere but all their efforts went in vain.
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