Free cancer treatment service for children below 14 years of age has been started at Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital.
The hospital has started all cancer treatment services for children under 14 years free of charge from kartik 2 Ujjwal Chalise informed.
Health and Population Minister Pradeep Paudel made a ministerial decision on October 11 last year to provide free cancer treatment for children under the age of 14 in government hospitals. The hospital implemented the decision.
The government had decided to provide free treatment services at Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital Bhaktapur, Kanti Children’s Hospital Kathmandu and BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital Bharatpur, Chitwan among government hospitals.
After Paudel was appointed as the Minister of Health, he started an initiative to provide free cancer treatment services to children under 14 years of age.
It is said that along with the treatment of children’s cancer, 35 types of medicines needed in the treatment of cancer will also be provided free of charge.