The hospital had to face a financial crisis in the last few years after the financial support given to the hospital by foreign donors was decreasing year by year.
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Bayalpata hospital with specialist services is not able to provide services even after the provincial government has taken over the responsibility of operation. The hospital is unable to provide services due to lack of necessary manpower.
Since the hospital has been operated under the government, there will be no free treatment anymore. Bayalpata Hospital, which has been suffering from financial crisis for a long time, has been operating under the name Bayalpata Provincial Hospital since August 1. Bayalpata Hospital provided free specialist services for about 17 years with the help of an NGO called Nyaya Health Nepal and an international NGO called Possible in America and other donor agencies.
The hospital had to face a financial crisis in the last few years after the financial support given to the hospital by foreign donors has been decreasing year by year. The government of Sudurpaschim Province had been providing financial support to the hospital, which was operated through a non-governmental organization, for a few years. It was in confusion for a long time because the state government could only provide the budget for capital expenditure and the hospital needed a budget to pay salaries and allowances to the human resources. According to the law, the state government was making a plan to take the hospitals under its control as they could not pay the staff of the hospitals run by non-governmental organizations.
Finally, from this August 1, the state government is operating as a 50-bed hospital. The formation order was prepared on legal basis such as Health Service Act 2075, Sudurpaschim Province Health Policy 2078, Provincial Government Operating Procedure 2077. A committee for ONM organizational management structure was also formed under the coordination of the Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development.
70 percent of Bayalpata Hospital will be made to compete among the employees and 30 percent of the employees will be brought in from outside. Arrangements were made. According to the same arrangement, 70 percent of the employees working in Bayalpata Hospital have been selected through internal competition. Earlier, there were 8 medical officers in the hospital. The management committee was of the opinion that they also face internal competition and it is easier to manage manpower. But since all the eight people did not apply, there is a shortage of manpower in the hospital," said an employee of the hospital. There are only two medical officers who came to work in remote areas after studying through the scholarship quota. Compared to before, many services provided by the hospital have decreased.
Medical superintendent of the hospital Dr. Jagdish Joshi said that there is no free treatment in Bayalpata hospital. According to him, the hospital management committee has already decided to charge 20 rupees for registration in OPD and 30 rupees for registration in emergency. He said that after being operated under the government, there are preparations to charge fees for expert services and laboratories accordingly. "Bayalpata Provincial Hospital is also determining the fees based on the fees charged by District Hospital Acham and Tikapur Hospital," he said. Although the employees have been selected through internal competition, the selection process of 30 percent of the employees who are said to be brought through open competition has not yet been completed. "We were in the final stage of selecting manpower through open competition. Everyone was affected by the Genji movement. We will finish all this within a week,' he said, 'The service will be operated after the necessary manpower to provide specialist services comes from open competition.' Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mandeep Pathak has been assigned to provide expert services as a consultant for one month. He says that he is not sure about the continuation of Dr. Pathak. For the operation of Bayalpata Regional Hospital, Sudurpaschim Province has allocated 70 million and the federal government has allocated 140 million budget.
