We will make service of state hospital effective: CM Shakya
KATHMANDU: SEPT. 21 – Chief Minister of Bagmati State, Asta Laxmi Shakya, has urged the hospitals under the State Government to provide effective service.
Inaugurating the PCR Lab and Oxygen Plant at Bakullahar Ratnanagar Hospital in eastern Chitwan today, Chief Minister Shakya shared that additional means and resources would be provided to the hospital.
The province government had provided a PCR Lab machine and oxygen plant to the hospital. She opined, “Problem has surfaced on the managerial side due to delay of the federal government has made to hand over the state hospital to the State Government.”
The CM further said that the PCR machines and oxygen plants are in operation at hospitals in 13 districts of the State.
Health Minister of Bagmati State, Pradeep Kumar Katuwal, Social Development Minister Bijay Subedi, former Minister of State for Education, Sheshnath Adhikari, former Minister for Agriculture, Cooperatives and Land Management, Dawa Dorjee Lama, Mayor of Ratnanagar municipality, Narayan Ban, among others were present on the occasion.
On the occasion, the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr Bishwo Bandhu Bagale, briefed CM Shakya about the activities of the hospital.
The health post established in 2024 BS has now been upgraded to the state hospital. Bagale complained that although it has got approval to run the 50-bed hospital, only a 43-bed hospital is now in operation.
-RSS
