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Gokarneshwor Municipality has managed an isolation ward of 27 beds as a part of its preparations against COVID-19.
Mayor of Gokarneshwor Municipality Santosh Chalise shared, "A 15-bed private hospital located at Jorpati Chowk is rented for three months to fight the coronavirus pneumonia. It will have five state-of-the-art ICUs, five ventilators and five isolation beds." Further, he said, “Seven isolation wards have been managed in coordination with Nepal Medical College, Attarkhel and five others from Shankharapur Hospital. More beds would be added with cooperation from two large hospitals in case of requirement."
For the control and treatment of the COVID-19, the municipality has also constituted a nine-member team of doctors led by Subash Pyakurel of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH). The municipality has also mobilised the health workers even in the public holidays for the treatment of regular patients from all nine health posts including Gokarna Primary Health Care Centre.
