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The Ministry of Health and Population has dispatched a circular, directing 34 hospitals and health facilities to operate the Out-Patient Department (OPD) services also on public holidays.

Ministry spokesperson Dr Prakash Budhathoki confirmed that the Ministry has sent a circular to these hospitals, urging them to operate the OPD services on public holidays as well. 

The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, some days back, sent a letter to the Ministry of Health and Population, asking it to ensure that the hospitals provide all services including the OPD services on public holidays.

According to Dr Budhathoki, the circular to this effect has been sent to the Bir Hospital, the Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital, the Bheri Hospital, the National tuberculosis Centre, the Koshi Hospital, the Nepal Eye Hospital, the Kanti Children's Hospital, the Sahid Gangalal National Heart Centre, the Rapti Academy of Health Sciences, the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, among others.

A special provision on public service delivery cited in a notice published in the Nepal Gazettee by the Ministry of Home Affairs states that the hospitals have to provide all categories of services including the OPD service even on public holidays.

The government issued this directive based on the public complaint that most of the hospitals and health facilities were not found delivering all types of health services on public holidays.

The Transport Management Office, Birgunj collected more than Rs 1.5 billion in revenue in the last fiscal year, 2023/24.

Compared to the previous fiscal year, 2022/23, the revenue collection upped by Rs 171.9 million.

Chief of Transport Management Office, Birgunj, Kamal Raj Gautam, informed that the last year's revenue collection was encouraging. The Office was able to collect Rs 1.35 billion in revenue in the fiscal year, 2022/23.

He said that Rs 1.19 billion was collected under the category of vehicles alone, while vehicle permits generated Rs 150 million.

A total of 2,229 vehicles as bus and truck, and the machineries combined were registered in the fiscal year, 2080/81BS. In the same period, as many as 645 vehicles like cars, jeep, microbus and ambulances were registered in the office.

The number of motorcycles and scooters getting registered last year stood at 747.

In total, the last fiscal year had registration of 38,456 new vehicles.

A light earthquake hit Sindhupalchowk district on Tuesday.

According to the National Seismological Center (NSC), an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richer scale jolted the district at 6:11 am with its epicenter near Shikharpur of the district.

Tara Air is going to resume its Pokhara-Jomsom from Tuesday.

The flight that was halted due to adverse weather will restart from tomorrow, said the Company in a press statement.

Sudarshan Bartaula, Aviation Security Officer at Tara Air, shared that the resumption of the flight is attributed to favorable weather and soon-to-start tourist season.

The aircraft will be stationed at Pokhara at night to facilitate the flight from Pokhara to Jomsom and vice versa, informed Bartaula, adding that the flight will be conducted from the old airport in Pokhara.

Situated at 2,736 meters above the sea level, the Jomsom Airport's runway's length measures at 739 meters.

Additionally, Tara Air has unveiled a flight schedule from Ramechhap-Lukla-Ramechhap from September 20 keeping the tourist season in mind.

The Airline has a plan to operate 10 to 15 flights daily from Manthali of Ramechhap district to Lukla in Solukhumbu district using its two twin Otter airplanes, according to Bartaula.

The arrangement is made taking into account the influx of tourists in the Everest region as the tourist season starts after the end of monsoon.

Lukla is considered to be the Gateway to the Everest Region that houses the highest mountain in the world-Mt Everest (Sagarmatha).