Manipal Hospital announces compensation to victims

Kathmandu Oct 21-Manipal Teaching Hospital (MTH) has announced to provide Rs 200 thousand compensation and provide employment to a member of each family in the hospital based on their educational qualification to the families of ten people, who were killed when the roof of the hospital collapsed Thursday.
Similarly, the hospital announced Rs 50,000 compensation and free treatment to each of the injured persons.
According to a hospital source, those who died in the accident included patients who were taking rest in the waiting room and two staffers of the hospital. Hari Maya Acharya of Kahun, Kaski, and Sarswoti Gautam of Baglung’s Mulpani were the hospital staffers killed in the incident.
Others who lost their lives in the incident are Jagadish Gautam of Baglung’s Mulpani; Singh Bahadur Gurung, Dil Kumari Gurung and Chandra Kumari Gurung of Kaski’s Ghandruk; Khil Maya Thapa, Dhanmaya Khada, Durga Malla, Kalimaya Thapa of Tanahun’s Baidi.
Among the seven injured people, four are said to be in critical condition and are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
The Royal Nepalese Army, the Nepal Police, the Armed Police Force and hospital employees engaged in the rescue operation for over two hours, reports said.
A Mumbai-based construction company, Space Tech Engineering, which constructed the waiting room at a cost of around Rs 3 million in 2000 had guaranteed that it would last for 50 years, reports quoted Sanjay Kumar Gupta, engineer of the hospital as saying.
He also quoted the company as saying that the waiting room would resist earthquake up to a magnitude of 7 in the Richter scale.