Nepal, Feb. 3 -- An agreement has been reached to provide cancer treatment at the Rapti Academy of Health Sciences (RAHS).At a programme organised in Deukhuri on Sunday, officiating Vice-Chancellor of the Academy, Prof Shyam Lamsal, and Executive Director at the BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Dr Shivaji Poudel, signed the agreement on the issue of exchanging necessary human resources by expanding cancer treatment service. The agreement was signed in the presence of officiating Dean of the Academy, Ramesh Kandel, and Hospital's Deputy Director Dr Umesh Nepal.

Earlier, people were compelled to go to other places including Chitwan and Kathmandu for the treatment of cancer, paying expensive cost in lack of such treatment in the distric...