President Paudel urges to provide health services keeping poor, helpless people in centre

Chitwan, Sept 26: President Ramchandra Paudel has said hospitals and health workers should pay attention to provide health services keeping the poor, helpless people in centre.   

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 of Chinese 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 hospital. (RSS)