{"id":411896,"date":"2025-06-27T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=411896"},"modified":"2025-06-27T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:05:57","slug":"health-minister-paudel-reaffirms-nepals-commitment-to-advancing-digital-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/06\/27\/411896.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Paudel reaffirms Nepal\u2019s commitment to advancing digital health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bangkok<\/strong>: Health Minister Pradip Paudel has highlighted Nepal\u2019s ongoing efforts in the digital health sector while addressing the United Nations Regional Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-411904 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Nepal-in-ESCAP-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Nepal-in-ESCAP-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Nepal-in-ESCAP-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Nepal-in-ESCAP-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Nepal-in-ESCAP-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Nepal-in-ESCAP-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>Health Minister Paudel reaffirmed Nepal\u2019s commitment to integrating fragmented health data, noting that policy decisions have already been made to consolidate citizen health statistics.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that Nepal has begun linking population information with citizen identification cards and is working toward integrating related health data.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing challenges in policy-making caused by fragmented data, Minister Paudel emphasized that inter-ministerial cooperation will be strengthened to advance digital health reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Secretary Dhundiraj Niraula expressed that positive feedback from the Asia-Pacific region has encouraged Nepal to intensify its digital health initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Ministry is preparing to introduce a population policy soon, in which the digital system will play a vital role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Minister explained that Nepal has begun linking population information with citizen identification cards and is working toward integrating related health data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":411904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-411896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411907,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411896\/revisions\/411907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411896"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=411896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}