Minister for Health and Population Pradeep Paudel has described the Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital, a specialized hospital for women's health, a national heritage that connects the lives of millions of mothers and children in the country.
Addressing a programme organized to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Thapathali-based hospital today, Minister Paudel asserted that the hospital stands as a witness to the Nepal's development in the health sector. "I am confident that the neo-natal screening and milk bank initiated by the hospital would significantly contribute in reducing the neonatal mortality," he said.
The Health Minister expressed his confidence that the reestablished IVF service in the Hospital would play a leading role in successfully implementing the infertility treatment standards introduced by the government. He pledged to add 11 additional beds to make the hospital a 500-bed health facility.
Furthermore, he informed that preparation was underway to forge an agreement to build two 25-bed satellite maternity hospitals in two municipalities in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City so as to manage the increasing patients' flow in the Kathmandu Valley
He assured to incorporate gynecology related diseases, Safe Motherhood and Newborn Programme in the national health insurance scheme.
Likewise, Shree Prasad Adhikari, Director of the Hospital, proudly shared the referral rate among the patients had been reduced due to robotic surgery in gynecological surgeries, Mental health OPD services, fetal and maternal echocardiography services being rendered by the Hospital.
He said that around 21,000 deliveries were conducted last fiscal year alone while more than 233,000 service-seekers availed services from Outpatient Department during that period.
Adhikari also mentioned that 8,693 service-seekers received infertility-related services through the OPD in the last fiscal year. Likewise, a total of 298 women availed Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) services and 43 received IVF (In-Vitro Fertilization) services in that year.
Around 2,000 newborns have been tested through neonatal screening test so far. Among them, 20 newborns were diagnosed with various disorders. According to him, this test has facilitated in diagnosis of genetic disorder in fetus and unborn babies.
The Paropakar Maternity and Women Hospital currently is the only central specialized hospital for women's health and operates with 489 beds.
It was established by the Paropakar Sanstha on Shree Krishna Janmastami with just 40 beds on Bhadra 10, 2016 BS. (RSS)
