Team to study delayed construction of hospital building

Kathmandu, August 21

The Parliamentary Education and Health Committee today formed a team to study delay in construction of Suresh Wagle Memorial Cancer Hospital.

Construction project for the hospital was set to be accomplished in 2014.

A three member team has been formed with Lawmaker Anjana Bisankhe as its co-ordinator and lawmakers Ekwal Miya and Sarita Neupane as members.

The committee has asked the team to submit its report within five days. The building is being constructed on the premises of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital.

The committee had discussed the matter with TU Registrar Dilli Ram Upreti, Institute of Medicine Dean Jagdish Agrawal, and officials from Ministry of Health and Population. The committee had also discussed the matter with the Ministry of Urban Development.

“The committee had earlier written to Tribhuvan University, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health and Population seeking information about delay in the construction work.

As the answers were not satisfactory it has demanded further clarification from the ministries and TU,” said Pushpa Prakash Khanal, Under secretary of Parliamentary Education and Health Committee.

Contract of building construction project was extended thrice but the construction work remains incomplete.