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95% private hospitals lack safety measures



KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Post has reported that over 95 percent of private hospitals have been operating from rented residential buildings without safety measures.

The hospitals were supposed to be shifted to their own safe buildings equipped with safer physical infrastructures by 2018-19.

The Association of Private Health Institutions of Nepal (APHIN), an umbrella organization of private hospital operators, had signed a memorandum with the Ministry of Health and Population in 2013.

 

 

Publish Date : 20 February 2019 07:16 AM

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