Lalitpur Metropolitan City contributed Rs. one crore (ten million) for construction of oxygen plant at Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital (PAHS-PH). Chiribabu Maharjan, the Mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City handed over the cheque to that effect on 19 January, 2021 to Prof. Dr. Rabi Shakya, the Director of PAHS-PH, in a ceremony attended by officials of PAHS-PH, government officials and representatives from different wards of the Metropolitan City.
The oxygen plant of the hospital is dysfunctional for some time due to inability to procure spare parts for repair because of COVID travel restriction in international flights. Whereas, the older plant met the oxygen needs of the hospital only partially, the new one is envisaged to have enhanced capacity to meet that demand fully.
