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Another Example Of Failure Of State-run Institution
By KTM Metro reporter
February 7, 2011: The first Civil Servant 132-bed Hospital built by the assistance of the People’s Republic of China at the cost of 60 million Yuan for the health care of the employees of the state administration, and their family members has been running in trouble because of the government interferences, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of February 7, 2011 writes. Executive Director Dr. Bimal Kumar Thapa has said that the undue pressure the government has been putting on the management of the hospital and the uncooperative role the government has been playing in have adversely affected on meeting the targets set by the hospital management.
The government has set up this hospital following the Development Committee Act of the Ministry of General Administration; so, the hospital management cannot hire permanent staffs and has appointed staffs on a one-year contract before it can really ask for the Public Service Commission to hire staffs for the hospital following the rules and regulations of the government but the government has not been doing anything to this end. Consequently, many experts and employees have quit the jobs feeling they are not safe in such contract jobs.
Executive Director Thapa has said that the hospital could start kidney transplant service and could develop as a special diagnostic centre in the nation; in addition, it could have all forms of specialist services within five years, and could become an ultra-modern hospital in 10 years following its targets if the government has given support for such work.
Last year, the Madhav government has tried to fire Executive Director Dr. Thapa saying the Prachanda government has appointed him. However, the Supreme Court of Nepal has ruled in favor of Thapa stating firing Thapa is illegal and allowed him to continue his job. After the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal, the ministry has been the most unsupportive to him.
