Auditing of health equipment of all federal hospitals made mandatory

Kathmandu, July 10: The federal hospitals across the country have been asked to submit the documents to the Ministry of Health and Population after conducting the auditing of their health equipment.

This provision was made mandatory for the hospitals under the scope of the Ministry of Health and Population to ascertain the total health equipment possessed by the federal hospitals. Minister of Health and Population Pradip Paudel had taken a serious note of the management of the health equipment, and the National Innovation Centre is assigned to repair and fix the malfunctioned health equipment.

Several health equipment that could be repaired at a low cost investment were found unused for a long time.

Considering this context, the Ministry of Health and Population has advanced steps for auditing to assess the materials. Chief of Ministry’s Quality Standard and Regulations Division, Dr Saroj Sharma, said that the status of health equipment, need for their maintenance, security and stock management would be well managed after the enactment of the auditing provision.