. KATHMANDU: An agreement has been reached between the Nepal Police Employees Council (NPC) and Kathmandu Medical College and Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital (KMC) to provide various concessions and special facilities to the families of those injured or killed in the conflict.
As per the agreement, the families of ex-police personnel who were maimed or killed during the conflict would get a 100 per cent discount on the fees of all the services provided by the hospital while undergoing treatment at the Duwakot-based Kathmandu Medical College Hospital. Such facility shall be provided to the family of one hundred members on the basis of the recommendation letter of the Council.
This facility will be available to the mother, father, husband or wife and two minor children of the members who are mutilated or killed during the conflict.
Similarly, other former police personnel and their dependent family members, except conflict survivors, will get 50 percent discount on all services of the inpatient department while undergoing treatment at Kathmandu Medical College Hospital in Duwakot. As per the agreement, the government will provide 25 per cent discount on admission to Kathmandu Medical College and 20 per cent discount on treatment at Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital, Biratnagar.
Agreement has also ensured additional special facilities for conflict victims. As per the agreement, up to five conflict survivors would be provided free kidney transplant service at Kathmandu Medical College Hospital in Sinamangal.
The patients who reach the hospital for emergency treatment will be provided treatment services on credit for 24 hours.
However, in order to get the concession as per the agreement, the recommendation letter of the council will have to be submitted to the hospital within 24 hours. The Council has to provide a recommendation letter mentioning the name of the patient to the hospital within 24 hours of the patient’s arrival at the hospital.
Kathmandu Medical College, as part of its social responsibility, has been providing concessions in treatment to people associated with various organizations. The agreement was signed with the government to provide concessions to the former police personnel associated with the Ex-Police Employees Council Nepal, their dependents and the families of those who were mutilated or killed during the conflict at the hospitals under Kathmandu Medical College and the Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital in Biratnagar. As per the agreement, there will be no discount on IVF, CTVS, liver transplant, cabin stay, plastic and cosmetic surgery and other cosmetic surgeries.
Similarly, the exemption will not be applicable on medical goods and medicines, including implants, surgical items.
The government health facilities such as health insurance, Mother Safety Program, Indigent Citizen Drug Treatment Fund and other health facilities operated by the Government of Nepal are available only after fully utilizing these facilities.
Agreement will be effective for one fiscal year from August 29, 2083 to Ashad end, 2084. The agreement was signed by former Nepal Police Employees Council Nepal Chairman Ramesh Kumar Shrestha and Executive Chairman of Kathmandu Medical College Soina Sharma.
Nepali Congress leader and director of Kathmandu Medical College and Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital, Dr. Sunil Sharma was the chief guest at the signing ceremony. The program was presided over by former Nepal Police Employees Council Chairman Ramesh Kumar Shrestha. Speaking at the program ‘Financial constraints should not be a hindrance in the treatment of conflict survivors’ (
Dr. Sharma said that the real victims of the police have not received the help received in the name of the conflict victims and he was happy to help in the treatment of the conflict.
He said that many problems seen at present could be solved if the police hospital could be developed as a medical college. Stating that the special facility has been introduced so that financial constraints do not become a hindrance to the treatment of the conflict survivors, Sharma said that the situation of any conflict survivors losing their lives due to lack of money has come to an end. The program was also attended by former Inspectors General of Police, family members of deceased police personnel and conflict victims
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