KATHMANDU, MARCH 8
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said the early diagnosis and treatment of uterus and breast cancer would be taken ahead as a special programme.
Arrangements would be made for providing free treatment services for breast and uterus cancer in all the seven provinces, he said while addressing a programme organised on the occasion of the 113th International Women's Day today.
PM Dahal said: "Infertility treatment services, setting up of neonatal care centres at the ward level, early diagnosis and free treatment of cancer of the uterus and breast seen in women would be expanded to all the seven provinces as a special programme. The HPV mass vaccination programme targeting girls between the ages of nine to 13 years would be expanded across the country for the prevention of uterus cancer."
He added that a nutrition programme targeting women would be carried out to deal with anemia found in about 34 per cent of women of reproductive age.
Stating that the 113th International Women's Day is being celebrated throughout the world today around the slogan - 'DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality', the PM observed that the issues of women's rights are intricately related to the economic and political system in society.
"A prosperous and equitable society cannot be built unless the disparity between men and women, and all forms of exploitation and suppression on women in society are put to an end. The narrative of valour and heroism demonstrated by women in the People's War and the People's Movement that took place in the land of Nepal have proved wrong the traditional notion of taking the women to be the weaker sex in the social and cultural context, constricting the women's world and that women cannot bear the social existence as the male do."
The Prime Minister reminded that the Constitution of Nepal has become successful in establishing a proportional, inclusive and equitable state system by putting to an end all sorts of disparities, inequalities and discriminations against women.
