KATHMANDU: The government has appointed Dr Basudev Upadhyay as the director general of the Department of Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine.
The appointment was made through a ministerial decision by Health and Population Minister Nisha Mehta.
Dr Upadhyay, an 11th-level Ayurveda physician, had been serving as the director of Naradevi Ayurveda Hospital before receiving the new responsibility.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, although he has been assigned the role of director general, his official post will remain at Naradevi Ayurveda Hospital.
Previously, the department’s acting director general role had been handled by 10th-level physician Shyam Babu Yadav.
Following Dr Upadhyay’s transfer to the department, the post of director at Naradevi Ayurveda Hospital has become vacant. The government has not yet appointed a replacement.
Sources at the Health Ministry said preparations are underway to assign the acting director’s responsibility to one of the hospital’s senior physicians.
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