Of over 700 health facilities that were affected in the devastating earthquake, half a dozen collapsed and over 450 suffered some form of damage, officials at the MoHP, informed."We have decided to make health facilities using prefab materials. For that we have already sought quotations from interested parties," Mahendra Bahadur Shrestha, chief of the Planning Division of the MoHP, said. He also informed that the ministry is in the process of giving a go ahead to the GiZ to construct over 400 health facilities.
According to Shrestha, the MoHP was wiling to allow other interested donor agencies and individuals to construct health facilities. He said that the health facilities should meet all government requirements. At present, health care services in the quake-hit districts are provided from tents.
Meanwhile, the MoHP has also said that it would deploy medical doctors at all of the quake-hit districts before July 15.
Earlier, the ministry had planned to make the deployments before June 15 but very few doctors showed interest.
"We have already deployed 58 MBBS doctors in the affected districts. We are concerned about the possible epidemics that could break out in those areas," Dr Guna Raj Lohani, spokesperson at the MoHP, said. He informed that the ministry has opened vacancy for additional 400 doctors to be deployed in the affected districts.
Spokesperson Lohani said that the ministry is tracking the doctors who pursued medical degrees under the government's scholarship program.
MBBS doctors who studied under the government's scholarship program are required to serve at least two years at government-run health facilities, where the MoHP deploys them.
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