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BHAKTAPUR
RSS
Madhyapurthimi municipality is all set to mobilize nursing robots in the treatment of coronavirus infected patients at its hospital.
Mayor Madan Sundar Shrestha shared that three nursing robots would be mobilized for this purpose at the Nepal-Korea Friendship Hospital run by the municipality. He further said that the municipality has expedited PCR testing and has prepared quarantine, isolation facilities and ICU with ventilators ready in its area.
Stating that the trial of employing nursing robots has already been carried out at the hospital, he said preparation has been made to bring nursing robots into operation from the third week of September. The robots would be used to provide medicine and food to patients.
Mayor Shrestha added that the hospital would be the first hospital in the country providing this service using robots, adding that around Rs 1.5 million would be spent for procuring three robots invented by Nepali youth.
A total of 9,000 people have undergone PCR test for coronavirus so far in the lab of the Municipality. Shrestha shared that a total of 327 people have tested positive for coronavirus so far, 90 returned home after recovery, 90 are at community isolation facilities and 171 at home isolation in the municipality area.
The municipality has allocated 30-bed capacity isolation ward with oxygen supply and 11-bed capacity ICU at the Nepal Korea Friendship Municipality Hospital with a total 85 beds. Out of the 11 beds in the ICU, eight beds are equipped with ventilators.
He said dialysis machine has been installed in one bed reserved for kidney patients. The municipality has already kept more than 100 suspected COVID-19 cases in quarantine in a guest house close the hospital.
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