Three wellbeing centers set up in Kavre

Kavre, April 5: Three citizen wellbeing centres have been set up in three places of two municipalities and a rural municipality to implement the policy for building a healthy Nepal.

The centres have been established in Panauti and Mandandeupur municipalities and Bhumlu rural municipality.

In order to develop the disease resistance capacity of Nepalese people by promoting a nature-friendly healthy lifestyle, the government had come up with a policy to establish citizen wellbeing centres at a health facility at all local levels.

The three local levels were chosen as per the decision of establishing wellbeing centres in 298 local levels across the country in the first phase.

Chief of District Ayurveda Health Centre Dr Manoj Kumar Chaudhary said the wellbeing centres would provide treatment of minor diseases, run classes for yoga exercise and make the locals aware of the use of local medicinal herbs.

The federal government would provide different 22 types of Ayurvedic medicines free of cost.