Health aid provided by the UK arrive

Kathmandu: Health supplies donated by the British government to Nepal have arrived in Kathmandu.

Health items including 260 ventilators and 19,200 face shields were brought to Kathmandu by a chartered flight on Friday morning.

The materials were handed over to Health Minister Hridayash Tripathi by British Ambassador to Nepal Nicola Polit at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Friday morning.

An oxygen concentrator provided by the charity Nepal Med UK was also brought from the same flight.