Construction of a 500-bed hospital at Kamal Rural Municipality in Jhapa district has been started.
The hospital to aim accessible health care to the local people. The hospital management has planned to bring Bhrikuti Hospital into operation within a year.
Hospital’s Chairman Buddhiman Thapa said, “Hospital’s services will begin with 100 beds and later, we will upgrade to 500 beds after its expansion.”
Thapa said that the new hospital facility will be built with an estimated cost of Rs 1 billion while adding that an agreement on construction has already been signed with the contractor.
With the development of hospital in Kamal Rural Municipality aims to benefit people of Jhapa, Ilam, Panchthar, Taplejung, Tehrathum, Morang and other districts of Province 1.
Thapa said that they plan to establish the hospital as an accessible health care institution for the economically poor and needy groups and they would be treated in a nominal cost.
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