The Ministry of Health and Population has prepared to make burn treatment free. Health and Population Minister Pradeep Paudel had promised to make burn treatment free and easy in the plans and priorities announced soon after he was appointed as a minister.
According to Minister Paudel’s priority, the ministry has started the process to make burn treatment free. The Ministry has recently taken the proposal to the Ministry of Finance and has given its approval.
The Ministry has done its homework to make the treatment of burns free by managing it from its own existing resources and starting treatment from all seven provinces.
The ministry is about to start such treatment in all seven provinces. According to which, burn treatment will be started at BP Koirala National Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan and Narayani Hospital at Birganj in Madhesh.
Preparations have been made to treat burns free of charge at Pokhara Institute of Health Sciences in Pokhara, Gandaki, Bheri Hospital in Nepalgunj, Lumbini. The process has progressed with free treatment of burns at Surkhet Provincial Hospital in Karnali and Seti Provincial Hospital at Dhangadhi in Far West.