Hospital´s Executive Director Dr Laxmi Narayan Singh said such movewas taken to deliver services to the patients at the local level as the patients from across the country were facing difficulties to visit Chitwan for the treatment. [break]
A meeting of the hospital´s Board of Directors (BoD) decided to establish branches in Nepalgunj, Dharan and Patan.
Singh said that the hospital was carrying out feasibility study to expand the services in Kathmandu, Janakpur, Pokhara and other cities as well.
Currently, patients from across the country and India are also visiting the BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital for cancer treatment.
In a bid to make an exemplary hospital in South Asia, the hospital is installing new equipments soon.
The hospital is brining CT Scam PET with high-tech equipment nuclear medicine used to test the level of cancer in the human body. Numbers of patients are visiting abroad to the cancer treatment due to lack of the same equipment so far.
Dr Singh said treatment of cancer would be easier after brining in the equipment.
According to Singh, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav was taken to Japan for treatment due to lack of the same machine.
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