INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
CHITWAN, SEPTEMBE 26President Ramchandra Paudel has said hospitals and health workers
should pay attention to provide health services keeping the poor, helpless people in centre.
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President Paudel made this request at a programme
organized here today on the 25th anniversary of BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, and the 20th National Cancer Awareness
Day."The constitution has ensured health service as the fundamental rights
It is the responsibility of health service providers to provide health services keeping the poor and helpless people in centre to implement
it", he underlined.
The President shared, "I believe that the government and private sector will pay attention to provide
quality health service to patients through the medium of capable human resources, modern medical equipment, easy and effective latest
technology.Expressing happiness that Chitwan is being developed as the hub of health service along with necessary infrastructures and modern
technology, he expressed the belief that Chitwan folks compulsion to visit Kathmandu for better health treatment would be ended with this."I
urge the federal government to pay special attention to produce necessary human resources for the treatment, prevention and control of
cancer disease and study and research as well as to make hospital service smooth and efficient and to upgrade the hospital as of
international standard", stressed President Paudel.The hospital was established as the best example of implementation of the policy of
decentralization adopted by the then government in 2049 BS
The hospital was established in memory of BP Koirala with the support ofChinese government and the then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
had inaugurated it in 2057 BS.The hospital has been upgraded to 500-bed hospital from 100-bed
A total of 188,514 patients including 6,795 cancer patients underwent treatment in the hospital in fiscal year 2023/24, according to the
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