The Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Jivan Ram Shrestha, has said the government would manage medical and health workers to attend the noted expert on culture, Satya Mohan Joshi.
KATHMANDU, Aug 28: The National Inclusion Commission (NIC) has urged the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) not to make or let the health workers to work more than eight hours a day.
The commission’s request came at the time after the reports of health institutions making the health workers work more than eight hours a day made it to the public domain.
A recent study has shown that some health institutions are assigning additional work of 24 to 36 hours and it has drawn the attention of the commission. As per the law, no health institution can assign additional tasks to health workers exceeding more than four hours a day and 24 hours a week. If they are assigned for such tasks they have to be paid accordingly.
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: At least 268 health workers and doctors have been infected with COVID-19 in Gandaki Province in a period of three weeks, according to the Provincial Health Directorate.
Pokhara, the provincial capital, has most of the infection cases, said Nawaraj Sharma, coordinator of the provincial health emergency work operations centre under the Directorate.
“The number of health workers on the frontline against the infection contracting the virus has been increasing. Most of the infected are from Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, infectious and communicable disease hospital and Beni Hospital,” he said.
The infected health workers include 138 (Kaski), 42 (Tanahun), 20 (Lamjung), 17 (Nawalparasi), 12 (Syangja), 11 (Baglung), 10 (Parbat), nine (Myagdi), six (Gorkha) and three (Mustang).
All the infected have been in home isolation and their health is normal, said the Directorate.
As the risk of the third wave of coronavirus omicron increases, 268 health workers, including doctors and staff nurses, have been infected in Gandaki over a three-week period.
KAVRE, October 1: The Bhumlu Rural Municipality in Kavre district has asked the Kavre District Administration Office to book those involved in misbehaving with its health workers. Health workers from the rural municipality were misbehaved and thrashed from local Anil Pote while giving the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine to the people in Dolalghat.
In a complaint filed at the administration office, the rural municipality stated that Assistant Health Worker Hitesh Kumar Mandal was beaten up while vaccinating people at Dulaleshwor Secondary School on Wednesday.
Other health workers were also abused. Likewise, Mandal has also lodged an application at the office of the rural municipality seeking action against Mandal for repeatedly threatening him. Chief Administrative Officer of rural municipality Dhakaram Aryal said that action has also been demanded against ward member Manoj Shrestha for tearing up the vaccine's record file. It is said that Shrestha misbehaves with the health workers by piling pressure on them to inoculate the non-prioritised group.
BANKE, May 28: Relatives of a patient, who died on Thursday evening while undergoing treatment at the Nepalgunj-based Bheri Hospital, have assaulted the health workers and doctors of the hospital.
The patient from Dang district was admitted to the hospital on May 18 and died while being treated in ventilator support.
Chairman of Bheri Hospital Development Committee Pramod Dhital said relatives of the deceased thrashed a doctor and four nursing staff blaming the medics for the death of the patient. Dr Chandra Prakash Sahu and nursing staff Asmini Gurung and Sadiksha Gaire were misbehaved by the deceased’s son and two brothers.
Dhital said that the patient died despite continued efforts of the doctors to save the patient.
After the death of the patient, the relatives also vandalised the ICU ward of the hospital while the health workers managed to save their lives by escaping the attack, hospital’s Nursing Officer Shila Sharma said.
Meanwhile, the health workers in the hospital have asked the administration to ensure their security and actions against the perpetrators.
NEPALGUNJ, May 28: Relatives of a patient, who died at 8:00 last night while receiving treatment at Bheri Hospital, have assaulted the health workers and doctors in the hospital.
The patient from Dang district was admitted to the hospital on May 18 and died last night while receiving treatment in ventilator support.
Chairman of Bheri Hospital Development Committee Pramod Dhital said relatives of the deceased thrashed a doctor and four nursing staff stating that the patient died due to carelessness of the health workers.
Dr Chandra Prakash Sahu and nursing staff Asmini Gurung and Sadiksha Gaire were misbehaved by the deceased’s son and two brothers.
Dhital said that the patient died despite continued efforts of the doctors to save the patient.
After the death of the patient, the relatives also vandalised the ICU ward of the hospital while the health workers managed to save their lives by escaping the attack, hospital’s Nursing Officer Shila Sharma said.
Meanwhile, the health workers in the hospital have asked the administration to ensure their security and actions against the perpetrators.
The federal government has decided to send an additional 80 health workers to Nepalgunj of Banke that has been the main hotspot of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
