Nepal Health Professional Council (NHPC)

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Overview

Nepal Health Professional Council (NHPC) has been established to make more effective health services in Nepal, to mobilize the services of health professionals except the qualified doctors and nurses to be registered with the Medical Council in a managed and scientific manner and make provisions on the registration of their names according to their qualifications, according to “Nepal Health Professional Council Act 2053” by the Government of Nepal .

Related readings

• Nepal Health Professional Council (NHPC)
• Nepal Pharmacy Council
• Nepal Ayurvedic Medical Council (NAMC)

Functions

Functions, duties and powers of Council According to the article 9 of the Act, the functions, duties and powers of the Council shall be as follows:

• To make necessary policies for smoothly operating the health profession related activities.
• To determine the curricula, terms of admission and policies on examination system of educational institutions imparting teaching and learning on health profession and evaluate and review the related matters.
• To determine the qualifications of health professionals and to provide for the registration of the names of health professionals having required qualifications.

Recognized programme

Following educational programmes are recognized by NHPC;

1. Public Health
2. Health Education
3. Medicine
4. Medical Microbiology
5. Diag. Health Lab
6. Diag. Radiography
7. Diag. Radiotherapy 
8. Diag. Cytology
9. Diag. Hematology
10. Diag. Biochemistry
11. Ayurved 
12. Homeopathy
13. Unani
14. Pharmacy
15. Acupuncture
16. Physiotherapy
17. Community based Rehabilitation
18. Prosthetic & Arthritic
19. Dental Assistant
20. Naturopathy
21. Yoga
22. Ophthalmology 
23. Operation Theatre and Allied Health Sciences
24. Clinical psychology
25. Speech and Hearing

Subject committees of the Council

For the registration of health professional, the council has 9 different subject committees:

• Medical subject committee
• Public Health subject committee
• Radiology subject committee
• Laboratory Medicine subject Committee
• Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation subject committee,
• Ayurveda subject committee,
• Dental subject committee
• Optometry Science Subject committee
• Miscellaneous subject (Homiyo, Yunani, Naturopathy etc.) committee

Registered professionals

S.No.	Subject	Specialization	First	Second	Third
1	Public Health	1270	4331
2	Health Education	35	77	16
3	Primary Health Care		1
4	Medicine			17363	60242
5	Medical Microbiology	145	145
6	Laboratory	39	2837	7951	18770
7	Radiography	37	699	2052
8	Radiotherapy	1	7	9
9	Cytrology	2	3
10	Haematology	20	8
11	Biochemistry	203	85
12	Virology	10
13	Nuclear Medicine		1
14	Ayurved			181	1161
15	Homeopathy		160	47
16	Unani		21
17	Acupuncture	3	11	98	51
18	Physiotherapy	207	1531	84	75
19	Community Base Rehabilitation		1
20	Prostheses & Orthoses		12		1
21	Dental Assistant			1414	787
22	Naturopathy	1	57
23	Yoga	3	9		1
24	Ophthalmology	15	920	1307
25	Operation Theater and Allied Health Sciences		13	80
26	Clinical Psychology	24
27	Speech and Hearing	12	79	1
28	Forensic Medicine			3
29	Perfusion Technology	3	8
30	Anaesthesia	1	63	1
31	Cardiology		4
32	Renal Dialysis		4
33	Occupational Therapy		2
34	TCM AMT	3
35	Embryology	1
Sub-total		2035	11089	30607	81088
Total					124819

Contact Address

www.nhpc.org.np
977-1-4373118, 977-1-4375079
977-1-4650257
[email protected]
Nepal Health Professional Council (NHPC), Bansbari, Kathmandu, Nepal

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