Kathmandu, 31 August: The Government of Republic of Korea (RoK) has provided 94 units of oxygen concentrators to the government of Nepal. Park Chong-suk,  Ambassador of RoK  to Nepal handed over 94 units of oxygen concentrators to Umesh Shrestha, State Minister of Health and Population amid a brief function organized today. Similarly,  KOICA-KAAN donated 3 units of Oxygen Concentrator to Methinkot Hospital.The Republic of Korea supported about $604,500 worth of oxygen concentrators to Nepal via KOICA (total 378 Units of Oxygen Concentrator). This handover was carried out to support Nepal’s Covid-19 responses through KOICA’s development projects in Nepal in addition to the donation from KOICA Alumni Association of Nepal (KAAN).However, the remaining 281 units of oxygen concentrators shall be handed over to Nepal by the end of September 2021. KOICA decided to support these oxygen concentrators based on the request of  the Ministry of Health and Population due to acute shortage of oxygen supply during the second wave of Covid-19 in Nepal. It is a 9 liters per minute capacity high flow oxygen concentrator manufactured in the USA. People's News Monitoring Service