Trauma Center To Be Opened In Kathmandu Soon
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 14, 2013: returning from participating in the conference of health ministers of East Asian countries held in New Delhi, India, and speaking to the reporters at the international airport in Kathmandu yesterday, Minister for Health Bidhyadhar Mallika has said that a five-member team of India will soon come to Kathmandu to officially turn over the 50-bed Trauma Center built at the Mahankal area by the assistance of India in Kathmandu eight years ago, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
The center has been lying idle since eight years ago, as the Nepalese government has not received it and operated it. The Indian government has been finding it uncomfortable to keep the Trauma Center without functioning it for so many years. So, at the time of the conference of the ministers of health of 11 East Asian countries held in India, the Indian Health Minister complained to the Nepalese Minister for Health Bidhyadhar Mallika about the Trauma Center not being able to operate for so long.