MAHA Jodi wins Madan Bhandari National Award
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli handed the award to Sunita Sahakari, a staff nurse by profession, and, Bam Bahadur Gurung, an ambulance driver, amid a function organized at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar.
The Madan Bhandari Foundation organized the event on the occasion of the 70th Birth Anniversary of people’s leader Madan Kumar Bhandari. The award carries a purse of Rs 100,000 each. Sahakari is serving the Bheri Hospital and Gurung drives an ambulance belonging to Nepal Ambulance Service, Kathmandu. Both Sahakari and Gurung were honored for their contributions to a fight against the infection risking their lives, said the Foundation’s secretary Pemba Lama.