Bhaktapur, February 21

Bhaktapur Municipality has started construction of a 25-bed hospital in Chyamasingh of the district.

Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony, Bhaktapur Municipality Mayor Sunil Prajapati said the hospital would be built within three years at the cost of Rs 55 million. Prajapati said the hospital to be named ‘Khwopa Hospital would occupy 10 ropani land and have an emergency facility with 10 beds, labour ward, operation theatre, Intensive Care Unit, pathology lab, among other things. This would be the first hospital built by a municipality in the country.

Laying the foundation of the hospital Narayan Man Bijukchhe, chairperson of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, said, “We had a dream of establishing a hospital, which would provide services at affordable cost. That dream has come true today.” Bijukcche added that the hospital would not only benefit people of the district but also those from neighbouring districts

Lawmaker and NWPP Secretary Prem Suwal said health services should be made free for all people. He said the hospital would provide services at affordable cost.

Mayor Prajapati informed that the municipality had been running public health centres, which benefited more than 400 people every day. “We have 16 specialist doctors, 30 MBBS doctors, and nurses for the all health centres,” he said.