Kathmandu, Feb. 3: The committee constituted by the Ministry of Health to make recommendations for the improvement and management of the hospitals providing special services submitted its report to the Minister for Health Dr. Ram Baran Yadav here today.

Special secretary at the Ministry of Health Dr. Som Nath Aryal is the convenor, Ramji Dahal of phcp and gtz, r. p. Panjiyar of theTribhuvan University and Dr. Janardan Lamichhane of jsi are the members and Dr. s. s. tiwari of the Ministry of Health is the member-secretary of  the committee constituted as per hmg’s decision taken on June, 1999.

Studies on 17 hospitals of the kingdom rendering special services have been covered in the report submitted by the committee.

The report has laid emphasis on the need for each hospital to have clear conceptions and targets, experienced and experts without political prejudices should be included in the board, the purview of the board should be clearly defined, and the chairman should be appointed from among the board members who is not a medical practitioner.

The report has also suggested that it will be better to appoint a person with managerial expertise to the post of director of the hospital, separate provision should be made for administration of hospitals, competent and specialists should provide emergency services, specialized services should be available round the clock at the emergency ward and registering the names for out patient services should be from 8.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the valley and from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the valley.

The report has pointed out the need for hmg to take steps to set up a central cremation plant in the kathmandu valley and provide its services to the governmental and the private organisations on paying specific fees and improve the nursing services immediately.

Considering the environmental and sanitary condition of the hospitals, the management should formulate and implement an action plan immediately and continuously monitor it for its effectiveness, it adds.

On the occasion Health Minister Dr. Yadav said that as hmg has adopted the health policy of providing preventive and  curative services, the suggestions of the report will be implemented as early as possible after studying it to improve the standard   of health services.

He noted that the hospital development board should not be considered a recruitment centre for persons having no technical knowledge.

Convenor of the committee Dr. Aryal said that the report has been prepared keeping in mind the means and resources of hmg.

Committee member Lamichhane elucidated the main features of the report.

Talking to rss after the programme, secretary at the Ministry of Health Srikant Regmi said that the suggestions which can be put into practice would be implemented immediately while short-term and long-term policies will be formulated for the rest of the suggestions.

He informed that considering the difficulties faced by the patients on account of two days’ holiday a week, it has been changed to one day a week.