“The service has not started due to the dispute between local people and the government,” said Dr Senendra Upreti, chief of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division. “But we are trying to settle the issue.”
The Ministry of Health and Population established two temporary hospitals under the existing physical infrastructure in the Sunsari and Saptari districts to provide relief to those displaced during flooding following damage to the Koshi barrage in August last year. Thousands of people in India and Nepal were affected by the incident.
The hospital in Saptari has started providing services, though the hospital had also been padlocked by local people for certain days.
He said those who failed to prove themselves as displaced were responsible for padlocking the hospital. The center has sent a team to make the necessary negotiations six days ago.
The hospitals were set up at the cost of about Rs 30.69 million to provide services to about 50,000 people.
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