BIRGUNJ, SEPTEMBER 30
Minister of Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet has said that reforms will be made in the health care sector to ensure accessible, quality and effective services to the needy ones.
At a programme organised at Narayani Hospital in Birgunj today to mark the hospital's anniversary, the health minister said that the key challenges to the health sector would be resolved so that the needy ones wouldn't have to die for lack of treatment.
He shared that the government was working for the upgradation of the hospitals along with needed human resources and equipment.
On the occasion, Minister Basnet expressed commitment to ensure conducive environment for doctors to work in an easy and a safer environment adding that the government would take stern steps to curb anarchic activities in the healthh care services assured sector. "The government is serious with regard to the misbehaviour and attacks on doctors taking place in different parts of the country. The process of punishing the wrongdoers has been taken forward by arresting them. The police is also carrying out investigations," the health minister shared.
He also asked the agitating doctors to return to their work stations adding that the talks between government officials and agitating doctors was reaching a conclusion soon.
Likewise, he added that kidney transplant service would begin soon in Narayani Hospital and support from all was needed for this to materialise.
Also speaking at the event, Health Minister of Madhes Province Birendra Singh expected support from all sides to make Madhes province a 'healthy province'.
On the occasion, lawmakers Pradip Yadav, Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, Prabhu Hajara Paswan and others expressed their views on the quality enhancement of Narayani Hospital.
Madhes Province Assembly members Janardan Singh Chhetri, Raj Kumar Gupta and others too asked to address the issue of human resource crunch as well as equipment supply in the hospital.
Medical Superintendent of Narayani Hospital Dr Chitranjan Sah shared that the hospital was running 350 beds currently, including other services.
As high as 1,200 plus patients from Nepal and India visit the hospital to receive health care services in Narayani Hospital, but limited infrastructure and human resources have created difficulties in providing the best possible services, Dr Sah said.
During the programme, Minister Basnet felicitated Mayor of Birgunj Metropolitan City Rajesh Man Singh, Chairman of Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industry Anil Agrawal and some other for their support to the hospital's infrastructure development.
A version of this article appears in the print on October 1, 2023, of The Himalayan Times
