Butwal, Feb 3 : The Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City has decided to ensure all services related to blood for free to the city dwellers in collaboration with the Blood Transfusion Service Centre.
An agreement to this issue was signed on Thursday between Mayor of Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City Khelraj Pandey and President of Nepal Red Cross Society, Rupandehi, Prem Lal Udas.
With this, the residents of Butwal
city would get blood and blood-related elements for free for their treatment in
the hospitals of Rupandehi district.
Mayor Pandey said that the
agreement includes forging collaboration to provide sufficient quantity of
blood in need, run health care camps and conduct awareness raising campaigns to
motivate people for blood donation.
Following the agreement, the residents
of Butwal will enjoy free services on blood for their treatment in any of the
hospitals in Rupandehi district.
Economically underprivileged people
would benefit the most from the agreement, it is said. (RSS)