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Budget Aims for a Policy Leap in Health Services
Provident Fund, the Citizen Investment Trust, and the Social Security Fund will be mobilised to expand health infrastructure, medical education, and specialised services.
Dipesh Ghimire
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Kathmandu — The budget has set a goal of making a policy leap in health services, Finance Minister Dr. Swarnim Wagle announced.
Wagle said the government has adopted a long-term goal of making basic institutions — equipped with skilled health workers, laboratories, essential medicines, digital health systems, and effective referral services — the first point of health care.
The Finance Minister said the government will enable Nepal Aushadhi Limited to produce at least 25 types of the medicines provided free of cost.
He said the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, the National Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Patan Academy of Health Sciences will be developed into international-standard universities, capable of providing education to foreign students as well.
Under a public-public partnership model, the major government hospitals in all seven provinces will be transformed in phases into teaching hospitals and specialised health service centres, Wagle said.
The Finance Minister added that the investable resources held in the Employees Provident Fund, the Citizen Investment Trust, and the Social Security Fund will be mobilised to expand health infrastructure, medical education, and specialised services.
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Dipesh Ghimire