KATHMANDU: Outpatient department (OPD) services in government-run hospitals will now be available from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm.
According to the policy and program for the financial year 2080/081 presented by President Ram Chandra Paudel on Friday, a health center with basic health check-up and treatment facilities would be established in every ward.
The policy and program says that all federal hospitals will be developed as teaching hospitals.
Air ambulance services will be operated in remote areas to prevent the death of people in the remote areas due to lack of timely treatment. Provision has also been made to give doctors working in basic hospitals the opportunity to study in higher medical education.
At least one provincial level hospital shall be developed as a super specialty hospital that can diagnose heart and cancer diseases. Campaigns against infectious diseases and special programs for the treatment of non-communicable diseases will be conducted. Similarly, arrangements will be made for the diagnosis and treatment of autism while free early detection and treatment of cervical cancer and breast cancer in women will be gradually expanded throughout the country as a special program. The government has said that the Department of Drug Administration will be transformed into the Department of Food, Medicines and Health Technology. Similarly, the Singhdarbar Baidyakhana and Herbs Processing Center will be re-structured to make the services of Ayurvedic hospitals effective.
