{"id":1984,"date":"2025-12-02T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:45:15","slug":"press-release-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/press-release-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s2\"><span class=\"s3\">Signing of the Exchange of Notes for the Economic and Social Development Programme (Provision of Medical Equipment) under Japan\u2019s Grant Aid<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3272-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3272-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3272-1030x688.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3272-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3272-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3275-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3275-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3275-1030x688.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3275-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3275-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\">Ambassador of Bhutan to Japan V. Namgyel and Ambassador of Japan to Bhutan Keiichi Ono, signed the Exchange of Notes for the Economic and Social Development Programme (Provision of Medical Equipment) under Japan\u2019s Grant Aid on 2nd December 2025. The signing ceremony took place at the Embassy of Japan in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\">Under this programme, the Government of Japan will provide a grant of 600 million Japanese Yen to procure advanced medical equipment to strengthen national healthcare capacity. This grant will help the Ministry of Health towards achieving its goal of universal access to quality and equitable health services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s8\"><span class=\"s7\">The Government of Japan has been generously supporting Bhutan over the years in <\/span><span class=\"s6\">strengthening the health sector with advanced medical equipment including ambulances, technical experts and the construction of the Royal Centre for Infectious Disease (RCID) at Gidakom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s8\"><span class=\"s6\">Ambassador V. Namgyel expressed deep appreciation of the Royal Government of Bhutan to the Government and People of Japan for their unwavering and generous support toward Bhutan\u2019s socio-economic development<\/span><span class=\"s7\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signing of the Exchange of Notes for the Economic and Social Development Programme (Provision of Medical Equipment) under Japan\u2019s Grant Aid &nbsp; Ambassador of Bhutan to Japan V. Namgyel and Ambassador of Japan to Bhutan Keiichi Ono, signed the Exchange of Notes for the Economic and Social Development Programme (Provision of Medical Equipment) under Japan\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}