In the fiscal year 2081/82, 657 chronically ill people in the district received health care facilities at the rate of Rs. 5,000 per month from the federal government.
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The number of patients with non-communicable diseases in Palpa is increasing year by year.
In the fiscal year 2081/82, 657 chronically ill people received the monthly health care facility of Rs 5,000 from the federal government. In the fiscal year 2080/81, 510 people took this facility. In the previous year, 423 people took this facility.
The federal government has been providing monthly treatment of Rs 5,000 to patients suffering from spinal paralysis, kidney disease and cancer. Senior Statistics Officer and Acting Office Chief Tuk Prasad Pokharel informed that the number of patients taking such facilities in the district is increasing every year. ‘The health branch of the municipality and the health office have been conducting screening on non-communicable diseases,’ he said. ‘It is seen that the number of non-communicable diseases is gradually increasing in every village every year.’
He said that the largest number of patients taking such facilities are from Tansen Municipality. In the last fiscal year, 150 patients from Tansen have taken the monthly facility of Rs 5,000. There were 130 in the previous fiscal year and 95 in the year before that.
82 people from Rampur Municipality in the district have availed this facility. Last year, only 26 people in Rampur availed this facility. 74 people from Baganaskali Rural Municipality near Tansen availed this facility. In the previous fiscal year, 77 people in Baganaskali availed this facility. According to the health office, 63 people from Ribdikot Rural Municipality availed the facility. In the previous fiscal year, 58 people availed the facility and 42 people availed the facility.
57 people from Mathagadhi availed the facility in the previous fiscal year, while 26 people availed this facility before that. 55 people from Ribdikot availed it in the previous fiscal year, while 40 people availed it the year before that.
48/48 people from Rambha and Purbakhola availed the service in the previous fiscal year, while 25 and 71 people availed this facility respectively in the previous year. 32 people from Nisdi availed this facility in the previous fiscal year, while 27 people availed it the year before that. The Health Office has informed that 31 people from Tinau Rural Municipality have availed the facility, while 30 people have availed it in the previous year.
In the last fiscal year 2081/82, the Health Office had recommended 333 people for free services through the Poor Citizens Treatment Fund. In the previous fiscal year, 346 people were recommended and in the year before that, 329 people were recommended, said Pokharel, Acting Chief of the Health Office.
The highest number of recommendations are 78 from Tansen Municipality and 58 from Rampur Municipality. 41 from Baganaskali Rural Municipality, 31 from Rambha, 32 from Mathagadhi, 17/17 from Tinau and Ribdikot, 27 from Purbakhola, 8 from Nisdi and 30 from Rainadevi Chhahara.
The government has been providing services to patients suffering from eight different types of diseases on the basis of this recommendation. Free services are recommended through the Poor Citizens Treatment Fund for kidney, heart, cancer, head injury, spinal injury, sickle cell anemia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
89 heart patients, 60 kidney patients, 180 cancer patients, two spinal injury patients, one head injury patient and one sickle cell anemia patient have been recommended for free treatment.
In the fiscal year 2080/81, there were 57 kidney patients, 106 heart patients, 165 cancer patients, 2 head injuries, 9 spinal injury patients and sickle cell anemia patients, and one Parkinson's disease patient. There was no recommendation for Alzheimer's disease.
The Lumbini provincial government has been providing treatment subsidy of Rs 200,000 per person to patients affected by the three diseases. The provincial health office has stated that the provincial government has been providing support for kidney transplants, cancer patients and heart valve replacement.
In the last fiscal year, 131 patients availed special financial facility of Rs 200,000 for health treatment, said Madhusudhan Bhattarai, Information Officer of the Health Office. Out of these, eight were kidney patients, 119 were cancer patients and four were heart valve replacement patients.
In the fiscal year 2080/81, 128 people, including 16 for kidney transplant, 102 for cancer and 10 for heart valve replacement, received services from various municipalities.
The number of people availing health treatment facilities provided by the federal and provincial governments has increased recently. The number of patients receiving treatment is increasing by 15 to 20 percent every year as new patients are diagnosed and old patients are treated, according to the Health Office.
Last year, the Health Office had gone to the homes of 2,912 people, including 763 disabled people and 2,147 senior citizens, from all 10 local levels. According to the Health Office, 10 percent of them were asthmatic, 33 percent were high blood pressure and 6 percent were diabetic.
Senior citizens and severely disabled (A and B) categories who have reached the age of 80 were tested in collaboration with the local level. A non-communicable disease (diabetes, blood pressure, and kidney disease) screening program was conducted for people above the age of 40. According to the Health Office, 11,648 service recipients from all 10 municipalities were tested for kidney disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and BMI under non-communicable diseases.
A one-day orientation was held for public representatives, teachers, students, health workers, and other stakeholders in all 10 municipalities and 1 health post. 476 participants were trained, and 2,000 pamphlets on non-communicable diseases were printed and distributed.
According to the Health Office, a survey was conducted on 13,536 people last year. Of these, 8,626 were women and 4,909 were men. People aged 30 to 90 years were included in the survey. Diabetes screening, high blood pressure, and protein levels in urine were tested.
