ACHEIVING GOALS
The Kathmandu Post
23 June 2010
Though it is good to see the government has made progress towards meeting effort towards meeting the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there are a number of health-related problems left to be addressed in rural Nepal (“MDG trail right on track” June 23, Page3). The decision of providing free health services through all the Village Development Committees (VDCs) based health service outlets has only been partially implemented leaving the rural people’s lives in the mercy of god.
The existing centralized drug supply system needs to be improved in order to ensure that health institutions in remote VDCs can provide adequate and timely medicine to patients. Currently, the supply of medicines from the centre lasts only a few months. If the government puts sincere effort in mobilizing VDC-based Village Health Workers and ward based Female Community Health Volunteers by imparting them with training on preventive measures, it will lead to an improvement in the health delivery services in addition to helping achieve health related MDGs.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj , Kathmandu
23 June 2010
Achieving MDGs
The existing centralized drug supply system needs to be improved in order to ensure that health institutions in remote VDCs can provide adequate and timely medicine to patients. Currently, the supply of medicines from the centre lasts only a few months. If the government puts sincere effort in mobilizing VDC-based Village Health Workers and ward based Female Community Health Volunteers by imparting them with training on preventive measures, it will lead to an improvement in the health delivery services in addition to helping achieve health related MDGs.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj , Kathmandu
