PATAN, OCTOBER 4

Minister for Health and Population Pradip Paudel has urged the staff at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) to provide services to citizens in an easy manner.

During an inspection of PAHS today, he stressed on the need of making the Academy's services more exemplary.

"The services here are comparatively better and it is necessary to make them even better," he said. The Health Minister commended PAHS for starting online services to patients and urged it to make the services easily accessible by reducing the time for the patients to wait in queue. "The online service should be made more effective," he asserted.

Minister Paudel said that the Ministry is ready to provide support for making the services more effective.

PAHS Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Rajesh Nath Gongol said that PAHS is serving maximum number of patients through its own funding and requested the Health Minister to provide support for building a new hospital building.

On the occasion, Minister Paudel gave assurances of making initiatives for providing assistance to that end.

The Minister also on the occasion acquired information on the status of treatment PAHS has been providing to the people who are injured during the recent natural disaster. He thanked the PAHS for providing free medical treatment to the injured in line with the government's announcement for the same.

PAHS Registrar Dr Paras Kumar Acharya pledged to carry out works in keeping with the Ministry's directives for enhancing the quality of services.