WHO to enlist Dhulikhel as first healthy city of Nepal

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, April 7: World Health Organization (WHO) is set to enlist Dhulikhel Municipality of Kavrepalanchok district as the first healthy city of Nepal. 

Mayor of Dhulikhel Municipality Ashok Kumar Byanju (Shrestha) confirmed that WHO is preparing to enlist Dhulikhel Municipality as the first healthy city within a month. 

For this Municipality has been working on health sector, infrastructure development, and poverty alleviation. He said that basic human needs including infrastructure development is being enhanced.

Mayor Byanju added that works of Dhulikhel on four goals under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)- quality education, good health, clean water and sanitation and no poverty- have been emulated in eight different nations working on the same.

He informed that the municipality has invested Rs. 230 million for garbage management.

The Mayor said that pure drinking water is being supplied to 86 per cent of municipality households. The municipality is working with United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) to make its inhabitants rich in nutrition intake. He said that 72 per cent locals have been covered with health insurance facility. (translated from RSS Nepali news)