Koirala and his team have promised that the medical facilities to be built would meet all standards set by the government, officials at the planning division of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) said.America Nepal Medical Foundation has raised US$ 400,000 fund to support the quake victims at the urgings of Dr Koirala. "We have been told that the hospitals would be more advanced and big enough to provide health care services to the people of the areas," Mahendra Bahadur Shrestha, chief of the Planning Division of the MoHP, said.
According to Shrestha, over seven hundred health facilities, including a few districts hospitals, collapsed in the devastating earthquake, depriving hundreds of thousands of people in the quake hit districts from accessing basic health care services.
The MoHP had decided to construct health facilities using prefab materials at an estimated cost of Rs 4.5 million each. However, Dr Koirala and his team have proposed to construct such facilities at Rs 3.5 million.
"We thought it would be better to invest in the infrastructure than other things," said Dr Koirala. He informed that they may end up constructing more health posts as more donations were pouring in to support the initiative.
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