Himalayan Rescue Association elects new executive committee, Parajuli commits to strengthen activities
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Kathmandu: Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA) has elected a new executive committee under the leadership of Dambar Parajuli.
Kumar Ranabhat , Shreeram Khatri , Sushil Krishna Adhikari have been elected vice-chairman, general secretary, and treasurer respectively in the new leadership of HRA.
Similarly, the elected executive committee members of the association include Dava Stephen Sherpa, Bikash Shah Rauniyar ,Prayush Neupane , Tul Singh Gurung , Subhash Dawadi , Warish Dharel and Yadav Adhikari .
Newly elected Chairman of HRA Dambar Parajuli is founder chairman of Expedition Operator’s Nepal and is involved in travel business since more than three decades .He is Chief Executive of Prestige Adventure at present.
Meanwhile, HRA organized a ceremony to welcome new leadership today .
On the occasion, Director General of Department of Tourism Hom Prasad Luitel highly evaluated contribution of HRA to minimize the hazards of mountain sickness in the remote Himalayan region of the country.
Outgoing Chairman Hari Dharel hoped that new executive committee will move forward to strengthen rescue activities in the mountain regions of the country.
Similarly , newly elected Chairman Parajuli committed to expanding rescue and welfare activities in the mountains and Himalayan region of the country in the years ahead.
Chief Executive Officer Gobinda Bashyal threw light on various activities of the organization .
Himalayan Rescue Association, established in 1973 as a nonprofit non- governmental organization, has been operating medical aid-posts in Manang , Pheriche and Everest Base Camp to provide better medical service and rescue assistance to the foreign trekkers and Nepali people .
HRA organizes a temporary health camp at Gosainkunda, a famous pilgrimage site situated at an altitude of 4380m, during Janaipurnima festival every year to help the people suffering from acute mountain sickness ,high altitude cerebral and pulmonary edema .
Hundreds of foreign and domestic medical doctors have been contributing the HRA as volunteers since the last 48 years to protect human life by treating people suffering from high altitude sickness and other emergencies in the mountain regions of Nepal.
7 June 2023
