{"id":987521899,"date":"2021-06-01T03:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/nepals-health-ministry-seeks-rs-33-billion-for-vaccine-procurement\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:24:51","slug":"nepals-health-ministry-seeks-rs-33-billion-for-vaccine-procurement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/nepals-health-ministry-seeks-rs-33-billion-for-vaccine-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s health ministry seeks Rs 33 billion for vaccine procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a pre-budget discussion held by the Parliamentary Finance Committee today the Ministry of Health and Population has demanded Rs 33 billion to arrange vaccines against the COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>To provide two doses of the vaccine to 21.5 million people, Rs 48 billion will have to be spent, of which Rs 33 billion should be allocated through the upcoming budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has stated that Rs 2.54 billion is yet to be paid for the vaccination programme.<\/p>\n<p>(1 NPR= 0.0086 USD)<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire article published originally in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehimalayantimes.com\/nepal\/health-ministry-seeks-rs-33-billion-for-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Himalayan Times here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.wionews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/story_page\/public\/2021\/03\/03\/185318-covid-vaccine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wionews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about vaccine financing and the health budget in Nepal? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pre-budget discussion held by the Parliamentary Finance Committee today the Ministry of Health and Population has demanded Rs 33 billion to arrange vaccines against the COVID-19 infection. To provide two doses of the vaccine to 21.5 million people, Rs 48 billion will have to be spent, of which Rs 33 billion should be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}