The Coca-Cola Foundation supports CREASION to install Oxygen plant for MCVTC

KATHMANDU: CREASION, with funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation, has successfully installed and handed over an oxygen plant to the Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular & Transplant Center (MCVTC) at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Maharajgunj in Kathmandu. [gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="31409,31410"] The handover ceremony was conducted in the presence of Dev Kumari Guragain, Secretary, Minister of Health and Population; Dinesh Kafle, Director of Teaching Hospital; Uttam Krishna Shrestha, Executive Director of Manmohan Hospital; Rajesh Ayapilla, Director - Sustainability and CSR for India and South West Asia (INSWA); Adarsh Avasthi, Country Manager for Coca-Cola in Nepal and Bhutan; Aanand Mishra, Founder and President of CREASION and senior representatives from Coca-Cola Bottlers Nepal Limited. The installed oxygen plant can serve up to 50 patients at a time and provides 240 litres of oxygen per second. MoHA Secretary Guragain thanked CREASION and The Coca-Cola Foundation for their efforts in installing the Oxygen plant. She shared, “The pandemic made us realise the importance of staying prepared and well-equipped with the essential materials. We are happy to have organisations support the healthcare sector by doing so.” The Coca-Cola Foundation shared, “We understand the importance of the healthcare sector, and the installation of the Oxygen plant is an attempt to provide assistance to the underserved community in Nepal. We hope our efforts will help in the self-sufficiency of the hospital.” Manmohan Hospital shared,” We are happy to receive the oxygen plant that has been provided by The Coca-Cola Foundation. It will help to strengthen our infrastructure to address the possible health crises.” “It is with great pleasure, that we are able to provide oxygen plant to the people in dire need. With this collaboration, we hope this plant will tackle the problem of insufficient supply of oxygen to the patients and help them when needed,” stated Mishra, Founder and President of CREASION. TUTH was established in 1983 and is an integral part of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of Tribhuvan University (TU). TUTH is a well-known public hospital in Nepal with a 700-bed facility. The hospital operates medical research projects and provides a major impulsion to Biomedical and Health Sciences Research (BHSR) in Nepal. TUTH has 22 departments and provides services from basic medical and surgical problems to open heart surgery and kidney transplant along with a Cancer Ward. Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center (MCVTC), under TU Institute of Medicine (IOM), was established on April 26, 2009. It is designated as a centre of excellence in the fields of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular treatment. MCVTC, led by a team of highly qualified, experienced and dedicated medical professionals, is well supported by fully devoted paramedical and non-medical staff. READ ALSO:

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