Bir Hospital to run trauma centre

In a bid to provide easy service to its patients, National Academy of Medical Science (NAMS) Bir Hospital is starting its Trauma Centre within the next eighteen months.

The state run Rising Nepal quoted Medical Superintendent at the NAMS, Bir Hospital, Dr Damodar Prasad Pokhrel, as saying that patients would get services within one-and-a-half years after the construction of the center is completed.

The Indian government has provided an assistance of Rs 50 million for the construction of the centre.

Dr Pokhrel said that the centre would have 200 beds and poor and needy patients would get easy and reliable services.

“We decided to set up the trauma centre after receiving patients of all kinds; although we do not have any facilities for mentally deranged patients, we do get them from time to time,” Dr Pokhrel said.

Dr Pokhrel also refuted the media reports that the hospital had increased service charges.

“We have discussing about increasing the charges only for those who can pay for the services, the hospital is not increasing its charges for the poor and needy patients,” he said.

The charges for those opting to stay in the cabins have been raised by 10 percent while the pathology charges have been raised as per the increase of price of the different lab materials in the local market.

Dr Pokhrel claimed that the hospital was devoted to the service of the poor and needy patients. “We have been providing treatment to those patients who are turned down by other hospitals,” he said.

He said that the hospital had been providing Rs 50 million charity to the poor and needy people every year. Out of 426 beds, patients have to pay for only 24 beds, others are for free, he informed. The total budget given by the government to the hospitals stands at Rs 107 million for the present fiscal year. nepalnews.com pb Jan 06 06