Government is active in developing country as a hub of medical education: PM Dahal

Kathmandu, April 24: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has pointed out the need of remaining alert as newer and newer challenges are seen in the health sector. Addressing the First Convocation Ceremony of Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) today, the PM called for paying special attention to resolving problems seen in the health sector. “The Academy should develop more infrastructures for facing and managing whatever challenges that might arise in the health sector. Special emphasis should be given to making the hospital’s services further standard and effective,” he asserted. According to the PM’s Private Secretariat, the Prime Minister on the occasion stressed on the need of producing skilled human resources in the medical sector who are inspired by a sense of social responsibility to reach quality health care services in the rural areas, stating that a large area of Nepal comprised of rural region. Pointing out the need of expanding the access of health services to the rural areas, the PM opined that the COVID-19 pandemic made the fact clear that the general Nepalis can avail of affordable health services only when the public health institutions are strong and robust. He said the government has kept the capacity enhancement of all the public hospitals in priority and urged the PAHS to take further initiatives to increasing the access of all to health services, the quality of service and to provide specialized health care services along with the identification of the social, cultural and environmental causative factors that affect the human health in the community. As the Prime Minister shared, the PAHS providing the health insurance programme and the community-based services in collaboration with the local government is an exemplary work. He said it is necessary to set up an integrated medical science academy to remove the duplication existing in the medical education and health service and for the management, operation and regulation of all the health and medical science institutions within the country. “Attention should be paid towards enhancing the capacity of all the health institutions, community hospitals and the cooperative hospitals in order to provide the basis and quality health services to all the citizens,” the PM reiterated and asserted that the government has been making the necessary preparations towards developing Nepal as the ‘hub’ for medical education.