KATHMANDU: Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital will finally resume from tomorrow all its services that had been halted for the last 18 days after the government agreed to form a high-level

committee.

The agitating doctors withdrew their protest programme after the government agreed to form a five-member committee that will submit its report within 15 days. The committee was formed under the coordination of Jaya Ram Giri, former education secretary. Members of the committee are Dr Mahesh Prasad Khakural and Dr Prakash Sundar Shrestha from TUTH, Laxman Khanal, under secretary, Ministry of Education, and a first class gazetted officer of the Office of the Attorney General.

Protesting residential doctors, surgeons, nurses and students have been demanding official cancellation of the post graduate entrance examination, resignation of officials in the dean’s office, fair probe into the dean’s role in leaking question papers and that the exams be held as soon as possible. On an average, 1,300 patients have been at the receiving end daily following service disruption in the hospital. The government has agreed to scrap the entrance test and to re-conduct it as soon as possible. It has also formed a high-level investigative team to find out the facts regarding the row.

Dr Karbi Nath Yogi, president of the Professors’ Association of TUTH, said they would resume all services from Thursday after the government showed its commitment to form the committee. “We hope the committee would give a fair decision on time and the government would act.”