Dang gets first ambulance with ICU

DANG, March 15: Dang district has got its first state-of-the-art ambulance equipped with Intensive Care Unit facility. The Non Resident Nepalese Association(NRNA) Japan, an organization of Nepalis residing in Japan, donated the ambulance to the Dang Chamber of Commerce.



The NRNA Japan has donated an ambulance each to Dang and Gulmi districts. Before these ambulances came into operation, the ambulances operating in these districts were equipped with oxygen only. [break]



The Japanese-built ambulances not only have comfortable stretchers, but also are equipped with air conditioning. Doctors in the districts have coined a term “mini-hospital” for these ambulances.



Getting the service of these ambulances is slightly expensive than other ambulances in the district.



“The other ambulances operated on diesel. But these run on petrol,” said Madhusudan Baidya, general secretary of Dang Chamber of Commerce. Each of these ambulances cost Rs 6.5 million.



The ambulances provide free services to those injured during the 2006 people´s movement and Maoist conflict.



Arun Shrestha, vice-president of NRNA Japan, donated the ambulance on Friday.

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