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PM Dahal, IPPF Director General Bermejo meet

KATHMANDU, May 2: Dr Alvaro Bermejo, director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on  Tuesday.
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KATHMANDU, May 2: Dr Alvaro Bermejo, director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on  Tuesday. During the meeting held at the Singha Durbar-based Office of the Prime Minister, the two discussed various issues concerning the health sector. 


Prime Minister Dahal urge the IPPF to increase investment in women's health and focus on preventing the risk of uterine cancer among women in Nepal, according to Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN)’s manager Dr Naresh Pratap KC. FPAN is a member organization of IPPF.  


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On the occasion, the prime minister also thanked the IPPF Director General for IPPF’s financial and technical support to Nepal's sexual and reproductive health sector.  In response, Dr Bermejo said that the IPPF's support to Nepal would be scaled up in the days to come. 


Dr Bermejo arrived here on April 30 for a five-day visit to Nepal.


FPAN Chair Himal Kasaju, IPPF South Asia regional director Sonal Mehta and technical advisor Dr Harjyot Khosa were also present on the occasion. IPPF is the organization with its largest global network working in the sexual and reproductive health issues and it reaches 189 countries through its member organizations like FPAN.


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