Koshi State Government Health Minister Bhupendra Rai has written a letter to District Hospital Sankhuwasabha to stop the procurement process of 'CT Scan Machine'. The state government allocated 70 million this year for the purchase of CT scan machines.
In the last financial year also, Rs 3 crore was 'frozen' as it was insufficient to purchase 'machines'. Patients from Bhojpur, Dhankuta and Terhathum, including Sankhuwasabha, come to the district hospital for treatment. There is a situation where patients with normal accidents have to be 'referred' to well-equipped hospitals by spending a lot of money for CT scan.
State Health Minister Rai's ministerial decision of Chait 17 has sent a letter to the hospital not to implement the CT scan machine purchase program. Suman Shakya, chairman of the hospital management committee, said that the Ministry of Health informed through a letter that the ministerial decision was not to implement the machine purchase program.
'The ministry has made a single decision and decided to stop the program,' he said, 'When Rajendra Karki was the health minister, the budget was allocated for the purchase of machines in remote Himalayan districts.' The all-party team also met the Chief Minister and Minister of Koshi Province on February 2, demanding the implementation of the 'CT Scan Machine Purchase' program for which the budget has already been allocated.
At that time, Health Minister Rai and Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki returned the team with an assurance that they would proceed with the procurement process. Coordination chief Shakya said that if the service can be operated from the district, the situation where common people have to spend a large amount of money for CT scan will end. Samajwadi Morcha also protested after the CT scan procurement process was stopped.
