Health ministry adopts policy to repair damaged and dysfunctional equipment across the country

Kathmandu / Jan 14: The Ministry of Health and Population has started repairing the damaged medical equipment and appliances at various hospitals in the country.

Accordingly, the ministry has set up biomedical workshops in all the provinces except Madhes and Koshi provinces, said Dr Prakash Budhathoki, spokesperson for the ministry. He added that the ministry has started repairing and operating the old and damaged equipment in line with its policy rather than buying new ones.

“Many medical equipment have become dysfunctional and hence are not in use. We are operating those equipment after repairing them,” he said.

The Management Section at the Department of Health Services has set up ‘biomedical workshop’ in all the seven provinces for this purpose, said Dr Surendra Chaurasiya, chief of the section.

According to him, the workshops have been set up with the support of the provincial governments. Medical equipment such as CT scan, video x-ray, X-ray, echo cardiograph machine, among others, are repaired at the workshop.

Chaurasiya said that a workshop would be set up in Madhes Province in the current fiscal year as the government has already allocated the budget required for the purpose. He added that the ministry has signed an agreement with the World Bank for setting up a biomedical workshop in Koshi Province.RSS