Kathmandu : Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population, Upendra Yadav, has said unhygienic food and an imbalanced lifestyle had increased the risk of non communicable diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
Inaugurating a free health camp organised by the Nepal-Pakistan Friendship and Cultural Association here today, the Deputy Prime Minister said the government emphasized on a special subsidy and financial assistance to ensure people’s access to healthcare services when the health service had become highly expensive. He highlighted the need of reaching out to the people nationwide with this type of free health camps for the wellbeing of poor.
Former Deputy Prime Minister and CPN (ML) general secretary CP Mainali said the bilateral relations between Nepal and Pakistan have expanded with the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1960.
He was of the view of making the SAARC, the regional body of eight countries in the South Asia, more active and vibrant.
On the occasion, Pakistan’s Ambassador for Nepal, Dr Mazhar Javed, said the bilateral relations between the two countries had been extended to the people’s level with the allocation of medical scholarship quotas for Nepali students in Pakistan. He pledged to continue this sort of medical camps in the future as well.
According to Association President Himalaya Shumser JB Rana, this kind of health camp which is organised twice in a year (one in Kathmandu and another in Kavrepalanchowk) has been in a calendar of the Association since the past nine years and this was possible due to initiations of Nepalis returned home after pursing medical degrees in Pakistan.
Association general secretary Manju Ratna Shakya said the camp was organised targeting urban poor where patients were given medicines for the six months free of cost. RSS
