With easy access to specialist services for mental, kidney, urinary, and other diseases at Dhaulagiri Hospital, patients no longer have to travel to Pokhara or Kathmandu.
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Dhaulagiri Hospital, which has been converted from a district to a zonal hospital to a provincial hospital, has started providing more than a dozen specialist services. In addition to surgical services, it has also started providing mental illness and kidney and urinary treatment services.
After becoming a provincial hospital, more than a dozen specialist services have started being provided here. The hospital, which has been adding services, has started providing urinary services in collaboration with the Pokhara Institute of Health Sciences. The team led by kidney specialist Dr. Bikash Khatri has been operating the service since Saturday, said Acting Medical Superintendent Dr. Pravin Ghimire. On the first day of the service, 25 patients benefited.
Hospital chairman Shri Prasad Sharma said that the service has been provided in the presence of the institute's doctors until skilled manpower is managed. After that, he said, the goal is to operate the service regularly by bringing in the necessary posts.
Due to the lack of kidney and urinary treatment facilities, many patients here were forced to go to Pokhara and Kathmandu. 'Initially, the service was operated in partnership, and regular services will be operated once the number of doctors is available,' said Medical Superintendent Dr. Kiran Tiwari, 'We have also started treatment services for mental problems on a daily and monthly basis.' Now, we have made it clear that no service is interrupted from here. The hospital has also been operating a trauma treatment room for two years.
The government plan to build the 'Hari Khadka Trauma Center' has not been completed. But records of trauma services are being kept and necessary treatment is also being provided by other doctors. The hospital has already brought in machines including CT scanners for the center.
Many services including kidney disease, protein in urine, problems in controlling high blood pressure, swelling of the body, diabetes, etc. have also started operating. The hospital has also started preparing for nursing education. Tiwari said that if more specialist doctors can be added, the service can be operated even if there is no nurse post. This year, the Gandaki Province government has already allocated a budget of Rs 7 million and started the work.
Pressure has also increased to build a heart disease treatment room in the hospital. ‘We have been taking initiatives many times, now we need a primary treatment room for heart disease,’ said former Gandaki Province Health Director Dr. Ram Bahadur KC, ‘Now we need a cardiologist post and a treatment room.’ He said that this work is necessary to reduce the mortality rate of patients.
Sharma said that the hospital management committee aims to build a treatment room for urgent and recently seen diseases. The hospital currently has 24 specialist doctors and 12 medical officers. Specialist treatment services such as obstetrics, orthopedics, pediatrics, and physiotherapy have also come into regular operation.
According to the hospital administration, more than 150,000 people have received treatment services here every year. Of these, more than 68,000 have received services under health insurance.
In the fiscal year 2077/78, 19,535 people received services from Dhaulagiri Hospital under insurance, while in the fiscal year 2078/079, 32,754 people received services. After that, 48,442 people received services. In the fiscal year 2080/081, that number reached 68,678, said Statistics Officer Nawaraj Sharma. In the last fiscal year, 69,688 people also received services from the hospital.
