Kathmandu, April 30 -- Monitoring of private health facilities-hospitals, nursing homes, polyclinics- operating in the districts of Province 3 has been halted since the beginning of the ongoing fiscal year.
Provincial health offices (then district public health offices) in Province 3, responsible for monitoring the health facilities in the districts, said that they have neither the manpower nor the budget to carry out the inspection.
Krishna Bahadur Chand, chief of the provincial health office in Kathmandu, said, "We haven't been able to inspect the private health facilities operating in the districts this year. We don't know what those health facilities are doing."
There are 1,200 health facilities in the 13 districts of Province 3, wit...