Government building eight corona vaccine storage houses

Kathmandu. The government has intensified the construction of vaccine storage houses against COVID-19 in eight different places of the country. In order to ensure safe and proper management of the vaccine against the corona virus, which has spread as a global epidemic, the Ministry of Urban Development has initiated the construction of one storage house at each of the seven states and one at the central level.

Accordingly, storage houses are being constructed at the site of the State Lab in Biratnagar of State No. 1, in the premises of Rural Development Training Center at Janakpur in State No. 2, in the premises of Insect Disease Research and Training Center in Hetauda, ​​the capital of Bagmati State and in the premises of Gandaki Health Office Kaski.

Similarly, a storage house is being constructed at Butwal Sub-Metropolis-12, Tamnagar, Lumbini, at the premises of Health Directorate at Surkhet, Karnali, at the premises of Health Training Center at Dhangadhi, Far Western State and at the premises of Pathlaiya Medical Store.

According to Suroj Poudel, Chief of Health Building Branch, Urban Development and Building Construction Department of the Ministry, a total of Rs. 96 million will be spent on the construction of eight storage houses at the rate of Rs. 12 million per storage house. According to him, the contract for the vaccine storage center to be constructed under State-2, Karnali State and Far-Western State has been signed and the work order has been issued.

Poudel said that the bids of Bagmati State, Gandaki State and Central Warehouse have been approved and the notice of intent has been published. The required vaccine for the respective state will be kept in the storage house within the said storage house and the remaining vaccine will be kept in the central storage house for the purpose as per the requirement.