Kathmandu, Dec. 14 -- In November 2010, Professor JP Agrawal, who was then the executive director at the Institute of Medicine, gave a presentation on 'Health: Reaching the Unreached,' a 'teaching districts' concept introduced by BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan. The concept entailed academia working together with the existing health centres in the concerned district with a view of implementing constitutionally guaranteed right to health.

In his presentation, Agrawal, who is currently the dean of Institute of Medicine, had argued that other medical schools should emulate Dharan hospital.

The central teaching hospital in Dharan, district hospitals in the eastern region with their affiliated primary health centres and hea...