‘Health post to each VDC underway’

Chitwan, Dec. 22 (RSS): Minister for Health Sarat Singh Bhandari today inaugurated the weekly Srimad Bhagawat Purana organised to contribute to the construction of a hospital building in Ratnanagar today.

On the occasion, Minister Bhandari said work is in progress as per the government’s objective of establishing a health post each in every village development committee.

Assistant Minister for Physical Planning and Construction Sabitri Bogati Pathak said that His Majesty’s Government is going to establish health posts and hospitals in every VDC with the professed goal of ensuring health for all the Nepalese.

MPs Dr Gangadhar Lamsal and Eknath Bhat, former MP Jagrit Prasad Bhetwal, committee chairman Bishnu Ghimire, vice-chairman Jagannath Thapaliya and others spoke on the importance of the hospital.

Mayor of Ratnanagar Municipality Narayan Ban chaired the programme.

Building handed over to Siraha hospital

Siraha, Dec. 22 (RSS): A 10-bed capacity building for emergency treatment constructed in line with the government’s policy of providing health services to more and more people by expanding the capacity of the existing hospitals across the country was handed over to Siraha hospital the other day.

The building with six rooms was constructed with a financial assistance of Rs. 1.5 million provided by Siraha district health development board.

Given the urgency for adding extra beds for the patients who are compelled to have treatment by lying in the floor of the hospital, the board had come up with the plan for constructing an annex for emergency services.

Similarly, under the medicine procurement programme of the board, a community-based medicine retail outlet will be opened at the newly constructed building. Medicines worth Rs. 125,000 will be procured for the retail outlet in the initial phase.

After opening the medicine retail outlet at the hospital premises, medicines will be made available to the patients at five to six percent cheaper than the price in the local market, Dr. Murali Prasad Singh, medical superintendent of Siraha hospital said.

Siraha district health development board also has provided two beds each to the 12 health posts in the district at a cost of Rs. 152,000.

The health posts are now in a position of providing bed services to the patients who had been undergoing treatment by lying on the floors.

‘Maoists terrorists should surrender arms’

Kavrepalanchowk, Dec. 22 (RSS): Former deputy prime minister and Nepali Congress central member Ram Chandra Paudel speaking at a party workers’ gathering organised by the NC Kavre district committee at Banepa today, observed that a understanding is necessary among parties.

Stating that he is fully convinced that the army-police joint action will wipe out the Maoist terrorists, he noted that they should first lay down their arms, stop the spree of violence and killings and apologise to the government and the people before coming to the mainstream of politics.

NC Kavre district president Madhu Acharya said nearly 400 people have been forced to live a life of refugee just because their political faith is different from that of the terrorists.

Various other speakers including Banepa Mayor Dr Surendra Bahadur Bade Shrestha also spoke at the function.