Free ambulance service to new mothers and older persons
The first meeting of the Municipal Executive took a decision to this effect to increase the access of the older people and the post-partum mothers to health care facilities.
KATHMANDU: The Birendranagar Municipality is to provide free ambulance service to the new mothers and the senior citizens.
The first meeting of the Municipal Executive took a decision to this effect to increase the access of the older people and the post-partum mothers to health care facilities.
Similarly, the meeting has decided to implement a free health insurance scheme by preparing specific standards after collecting data related to the senior citizens, extremely poor and those suffering from life-long diseases.
Among other decisions made by the Municipal Executive include conservation of public land; stopping encroachment on traditional irrigation channel, canal, road and place of public importance and removing the construction materials stored at the road side without acquiring permission.
Likewise, the meeting has kept waste management in top priority. It decided to give the ward committees full responsibility for the management of waste at the respective wards. In this connection, the municipality has signed an agreement with Clean Nepal and it will be made accountable for the same. Clean Nepal would be required to present a schedule for waste collection and management and this would be monitored.
The Municipal Executive has likewise decided to identify the areas with serious inundation problem and address it in the long term by allocating adequate budget and mobilizing the resources.
It has decided to carry out repair and maintenance works on roads in the main town areas of the municipality as well as expedite the construction of a cow shelter at the Prashanti Religious Community Forest near the Bheri Bridge at Birendranagar Municipality-11, Municipality’s administrative officer Dipen Subedi said.
