Tender for the building at a cost estimate of 1 billion 55 crore 53 lakh
After the delay in the construction of Narayani Hospital Birganj, the doctors of the hospital blocked the highway on Friday and demonstrated. On the call of the Hospital Building Struggle Committee, doctors blocked the Tribhuvan Rajpath between the buildings on both sides of the hospital for 1 hour from 11 am to 12 am.
Coordinator of the committee and doctor of the hospital. Neeraj Singh said that the issue of building a 500-bed building is stuck in the court. According to him, patients and doctors are suffering due to dilapidated and old buildings, so the dispute has been resolved immediately and the demonstration has been made to pressurize the construction of the building.
Under the integrated health infrastructure development program of 2074/75, the government had introduced a plan to build a 500-bed hospital in each province. Accordingly, a building is going to be constructed at Narayani Hospital under Madhesh Province. The tender process for the building was advanced with a cost estimate of 1 billion 55 crore 53 lakh 84 thousand rupees. The only bidder in the tender was NDE/VCIP/SSNC Lalitpur Pulchok Company of Joint Venture.
The dispute between the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction and the construction company reached the Supreme Court after one of the company's revenue records were not found during the completeness test in the tender bidding construction process. Even after a long time, the tender process has not been completed as the case has not been resolved. Singh said that although new buildings have been constructed in other government central hospitals of the country under the Integrated Health Infrastructure Development Program, the work has not started in Birgunj.
A 300-bed building is being operated by the government and development committee in Narayani. At various times, the tradesmen and industry and commerce association of Birgunj have built the physical structure of the hospital, but no structure has been constructed by the government. Due to the dilapidated building of the hospital, the patients have to suffer. Singh says. He said that the health workers of the
hospital are forced to refer patients to other hospitals as they are unable to provide services according to their capacity. In Narayani, from Parsa to Sarlahi and neighboring villages and towns of Bihar state in India, patients also come for treatment.
