Resunga Municipality feted with Netrajyoti Distinguished Honour
The municipality said that now all citizens in the municipality have access to eye treatment and no citizen should be deprived of treatment for cataracts due to financial difficulties.
KATHMANDU: The Resunga Municipality has bagged the Netrajyoti Distinguished Honour for making an outstanding contribution to eye care services to prevent blindness.
The municipality said that now all citizens in the municipality have access to eye treatment and no citizen should be deprived of treatment for cataracts due to financial difficulties.
At the 30th central convention of the Nepal Netrajyoti Sangh, the founders Prof. Dr. Ram Prasad Pokharel, Deputy Speaker of Koshi Provincial Assembly Sirjana Danuwar, and central president Prof. Dr. Chetraj Pant handed over the Letter of Honour to Resunga Municipality mayor Khildhwaj Panthi.
On this occasion, Mayor Panthi shared that he decided from the first meeting of the municipal executive committee to make eye care services accessible to all citizens, saying that currently, no patient would be deprived of eye care services due to a lack of funds in the municipality.
According to him, the municipality has helped run dialysis services for kidney patients at Gulmi Hospital. Currently, 40 patients are benefiting from this service.
The municipality is also providing oxygen concentrators door to door for patients with asthma and pneumonia. It is reported that around 200 patients have benefited from this.
The Netrajyoti Sangh had also given that honour to Gorkha Municipality.
Philanthropist Sapkota honoured
On the same occasion, social worker Krishna Hari Sapkota from Gulmi was awarded the Netrajyoti Special Honour.
Sapkota built a two-and-a-half-storey building on one ropani of land in Musikot Municipality, Ward 7 and handed it over to the Nepal Netrajyoti Sangh Gulmi Branch. Its value is reported to be around Rs 25 million.
Currently, the building houses an eye treatment centre run by the Sangh.
