Kathmandu, Sept 17: The government has constituted a talks team to hold dialogue with the protesting Nepal Medical Association.

The government has called for talks after the Nepal Medical Association suspended all non-emergency services in health institutions across the country, demanding action against the culprits involved in the Hetauda incident. Adding to that they stated that the medical professionals cannot provide services when they are insecure.

Minister for Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet formed a five-member talks team with the  Ministry's Additional Secretary Dr Bikash Devkota as coordinator, Joint Secretary at the Ministry Tulasinath Gautam said. A Joint Secretary each from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and the Ministry of Health and Population is the member of the team.

The talks team has immediately called the doctors for talks. The Association has shut all the services, except the emergency ones, at the health facilities throughout the country today, calling for action against those responsible for assaulting doctors.

The NMA decision comes as an organized pressure to seek action against those involved in the physical assault on two doctors at Sancho Hospital in Hetauda on September 13.

 
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