Banke, Nov 5: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka has met the people injured in the Jajarkot earthquake.
He met those receiving treatment at Bheri Hospital in Banke on Sunday. DPM Khadka took stock the condition of the injured ones. He wished speedy recovery to the injured people.
The DPM also directed the hospital to ensure adequate treatment to the survivors. Khadka also informed that government would provide treatment free of cost.
Moreover, DPM Khadka said government was actively engaging with disaster response and rehabilitation.
On the occasion, Chief District Officer in Banke, Shravan Kumar Pokhrel, apprised DPM Khadka of the works going on for treatment, rescue and relief distribution to the quake survivors.
Similarly, medical superintendent of Bheri Hospital, Dr Pavan Jung Rayamajhi, informed the DPM about health condition and treatment of the injured ones. Government had assigned the Bheri Hospital as the dedicated hospital for treating disaster victims.
A total of 105 beds are managed for the treatment. Currently, 37 quake survivors are receiving treatment here.
‘All earthquake survivors will get relief assistance within two days’
Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka has paid tribute to those people who lost their life to the recent devastating earthquake in Jajarkot, including Sarita Singh, deputy mayor of Nalgad Municipality, Jajarkot.
The DPM paid tribute to the deputy mayor Singh by draping her body with the national flag during a mass cremation organised for the earthquake dead on the bank of the Triveni River in Jajarkot this afternoon.
Chief Minister of Karnali province Raj Kumar Sharma was also present on the occasion.
DPM Khadka said that the government has kept medical treatment, relief and rehabilitation of the earthquake survivors in priority. Stating that the government was successful in rescuing the quake-injured people in a single day by mobilizing the entire state apparatus, he said the distribution of relief to the survivors has begun from today itself.
“We have dispatched the relief materials in such a way they will reach all the earthquake-affected people within two days. More relief is on the way. We will distribute the relief at the same pace we carried out the rescue operation,” he said, adding that the reconstruction works would be started immediately after the relief distribution is over.
The earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale at 11:47 pm on Friday, with its epicenter in Jajarkot, resulted in significant casualties and property damage. So far 157 have been confirmed dead in the quake.
