The Karnali state government is set to put in place a health desk to get prevented from widely spreading coronavirus (COVID 19).

The Ministry of Social Development under the Karnali state government is making arrangement for health check-up service by establishing health screening desks.

According to the State Helath Directorate Surkhet, health desks would be set up in four corona-affected checkpoints including Humla having border linkage with China.

Directorate’s director Dr Rita Bhandari Joshi informed that regular health check-up would be provided in Hissa, Humla along Nepal-Tibet border, Babai in province-5, Kapurkot checkpoint in Salyan and Surkhet airport.

Health workers would be deputed in border entry points with medicines and they would also sensitize travelers about corona, he added. "All necessary preparation for the setup of health desks is over. Now we are preparing to send a team of health workers with medicines and instruments to bordering Hissa soon",