KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Five members have resigned en masse from the Health Insurance Board. They submitted their resignations to Minister for Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet through the board's office on Tuesday.
They tendered resignation alleging that the health minister and the government were trying to abolish the health insurance board.
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The members of the board who have resigned include Dr Tara Shah, Dr Suresh Tiwari, Chandra Thapa, Tika Chapagai Bhattarai and Indrakala Rai.
Minister Basnet had asked the Executive Director of the health insurance board, Damodar Basaula, to explain the health insurance board's violation of the law some one month ago. Two weeks later, the ministry suspended Basaula for three months and instructed him to submit an explanation within a week.
Following the mass resignation of these five members, and in the absence of a chairman for the past five months, the board is now left with only two remaining members, the acting executive director and the representative from the Ministry of Finance.
