The mobile hospital contains surgical wards, oxygen supply cars, intensive care unit (ICU) and dozens of beds. It is said that the two hospitals can provide health care services to 500 patients a day.
The Directorate of Public Relation (DPR) of the NA said that it has been coordinating with the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to bring the mobile hospitals gifted by the People Liberation Army (PLA) of China into operations as soon as possible.
"We have been consulting with the concerned officials at the MoHP to mobilize the two hospitals," said Jagadish Chandra Pokhrel, brigadier general of NA, who is also the NA's spokesperson. He informed that the NA will set up the field hospitals in the districts that are in dire need.
Over seven hundred health facilities, including half a dozen district hospitals collapsed in the earthquake, depriving hundreds of thousands of ailing patients in those districts of basic healthcare services.
The NA said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the two nations for providing two mobile field hospitals to NA during Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana's official China visit.
Amid a special function held at Kathmandu last week, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai handed over the field hospitals to CoAS Rana.
The NA said that the PLA has provided 24 vehicles, to be used along with the mobile hospitals, spare parts for the vehicles, and eight trucks.
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