Every year, 5 lakh Nepalis go below the poverty line because they have to spend 54 rupees on health while earning 100 rupees: Health Minister Paudel

Magh 9, 2081

Kantipur Reporter

Every year, 5 lakh Nepalis go below the poverty line because they have to spend 54 rupees on health while earning 100 rupees: Health Minister Paudel

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Minister of Health and Population Pradeep Paudel has said that every year 5 lakh Nepalis go below the poverty line because they have to spend 54 rupees on health out of earning 100 rupees.

Nepalis have been able to get treatment easily or how much money has to be spent for treatment? Let's say a Nepali earns 100 rupees and has to spend 54 rupees on health," the third session of the interactive program on "Gantavya Gandaki" organized by Kantipur Media Group in Pokhara on Wednesday,  Minister Paudel speaking in the letter "Basic Concern: Education, Health and Employment" said, "Government statistics say that every year 500,000 Nepalis have gone below the poverty line because they have to spend 54 rupees."

He said that even people with financial capacity have complained that they are not getting good treatment. For this  He said that structural reform is necessary. 

'with the topic of policy reforms  Structural reform should be the priority of the state. We have enough manpower, but we have gone abroad. Nepal qualifies, and they go outside the destination," he said. The state should think about why a person left first.'

doctors, nurses, etc. He said that more facilities should be provided.

'The more the personal capacity of doctors and nurses is improved, the more the country will benefit . The more doctors become competent, the more the country will benefit,'' he said, 'but the current practice system is not perfect, it needs to be reformed . It is necessary to organize by adding more subjects. Education should be resource-oriented to connect with employment.

It is necessary to reconsider the issues related to health, amend existing laws and create new laws, he said.

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