Bhaktapur Hospital prepares to operate CT scan, mammogram machines

Bhaktapur, Dec 20: The Bhaktapur Hospital is preparing to operate CT scan machine soon. The Ministry of Health of Bagmati Province, has already purchased a machine for Rs 80 million. After the construction of a new building, the hospital is planning to bring the CT scan machine into operation within month.    

The Hospital's Executive Director Dr Sumitra Gautam said that construction of the building was in the final stage. She said that the hospital is bringing the CT scan machine into operation from this month after 120 years of the establishment of the hospital.    

The hospital is building a one-storied building to exclusively run the CT scan machine. The patients should not visit the private hospitals by paying high cost for the CT scan.    
Likewise, the company itself would carry out the maintenance works of the CT scan for a decade and would also provide papers for the CT scan machine.    

Bagmati Province Health Minister Kiran Thapa said that the Bagmati province government is going to bring the CT scan machine into operation at a cost of Rs 80 million and a mammogram machine would also be operated at a cost of Rs 11 million.    

He said that installation of a mammogram machine would help screen and confirm breast cancer for women.    
It is said that the province government has already arranged skilled human resources to operate and handle the machines.  (RSS)