Kathmandu, June 27 -- Province 3 government's failure to allocate budget on time has left health facilities-health posts, primary health care centers and urban health clinics-in Kathmandu without essential medicines.
The lack of budget has also affected health workers' training and awareness programmes. Because of the government's failure to allocate budget, health facilities were unable to enforce precautionary measures to combat possible epidemics.
"We got the budget after we were 10 months into the fiscal year," Krishna Bahadur Chand, chief of Provincial Health Office, in Kathmandu, told the Post. "We were even deprived of salaries for seven months."
The health office started planning for health programmes-to be launched in Kathmandu ...