MIT’s scientist Sherpa calls on PM Oli

Kathmandu: Scientist researcher at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mingmar Sherpa, who returned home at the urging of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, called on the latter today.

A Sherpa who returned from the US three months ago has been running a research project in the area of public health. It may be noted that PM Oli, addressing a programme at Harvard University in Boston, US, last year, had urged the Nepali teachers and students of different disciplines in the universities to utilise their knowledge and experience for the betterment of their motherland.

On the occasion, he expressed his confidence that there would be full facilitation on the part of the government for the same. After returning home, PM Oli had sent letters to all teachers and students who attended the meeting in Harvard, urging them to lend support for the country’s prosperity and benefits.

Sherpa shared the information with the PM that he registered the Bright Vision Foundation in collaboration with the Bristle University of the UK after being inspired by his letter and is running a project amounting to Rs 100 million on the status of non-communicable disease, its treatment and proper nutrition in Nepal.

He further shared that the five-year project will also establish collaboration with the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC). The Foundation has also provided free-of-cost health-checkup services to 1,500 people by conducting a health camp in Solukhumbu.

Further, it has imparted free training to the rural people in the district. Sherpa had completed his studies in Immunology from Harvard University, US.

He recommended that the government appropriate at least one percent of its budget in the area of research and help make Nepal’s research-based journals of the international standard.

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