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The availability of temporary contraceptives for family planning has led to decline of males and females going for permanent services of vasectomy and minilaparotomy.
Data at the District Health Office Kavre showed that both males and females were attracted towards temporary contraceptives due to their easy availability in Kavre bazaar and elsewhere.
Family planning officer Ananta Sharma at the Kavre district health Office said that easy access of intraurine contraceptive device ( IUCD) and implant had slashed the number of males and females seeking vasectomy and minilaparotomy services.
According to Sharma, as many as 165 males and 90 females had taken the services of vasectomy and minilap last year. Similarly, 528 females had taken IUCD, 2,995 females implant, 3,549 dipo, and 1,332 women had taken the pills respectively.
The previous year, as many as 325 had taken the help of permanent means of family planning. Of them, 182 males and 143 women had taken vasectomy and minilaparotony services.
The district health office has been organising vasectomy and minilaparotomy services at various places on a yearly basis.
The number of people going for vasectomy and temporary contraceptive of family planning is low at ten VDCs beyond Dandapari in the district.
Sharma said Panchkhal Municipality and Methokot VDC top in the use of both permanent and temporary means of family planning.
“ Even those who have fulfilled the need of children are using temporary means of family planning,” Sharma added.
District health office, Nepal Family Planning Union Banepa and Dhulikhel Hospital have been delivering family planning services in the district
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A sub-committee formed to study, analyse, and discuss with stakeholders about implementation of a report on medical education, prepared by Kedar Bhakta Mathema-led high-level task force, has formulated and submitted its detailed action plan to the Social Committee of the Cabinet.
The Social Committee, on August 4, had constituted a sub-committee and assigned it the task of formulating the action plan so as to implement the National Policy Report on Medical Education prepared by the eight-member Mathema panel. The sub-committee is led by National Planning Commission member Yagya Bahadur Karki, along with secretaries of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Health and Population.
The report was submitted to Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on June 29. According to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the detailed action plan formulated by the Karki-led sub-committee was submitted to the Social Committee yesterday, following discussion on various issues regarding the implementation of the report submitted by the Mathema panel. Uttam Kumar Khatri, joint secretary and spokesperson at OPMCM, said the government had decided to write to the concerned ministries for early implementation of all the recommendations, barring a few exceptions, made in the Mathema report.
The issues that needed further study for implementation are related to affiliation of medical colleges, students’ quota in medical and dental colleges, fee for MBBS level, Health Professional Education Commission, selection of leadership in medical education institutions, Ayurved Council, and prohibition of issuance of Letter of Intent to new nursing colleges until the next five years. OPMCM said the government had decided to provide teaching hospitals outside Kathmandu Valley, which are yet to come into operation, with incentives (land lease, tax remission) and to establish at least one medical college in each development region.
The government will make a provision of providing affiliation of Purbanchal, Pokhara, mid-western, and far-western universities to medical colleges only in the respective regions, while revoking affiliation of such colleges that fail to achieve more than 75 per cent marks for two years in a row as per the yardstick prepared by Nepal Medical Council.
The government will also make a provision of a Common National Entrance Exam of MBBS and maximum annual fee for MBBS as well as Bachelor of Dental Surgery levels by bringing about uniformity in question papers and fee structures. According to the action plan, the total fee for MD and Master of Dental Surgery will not exceed four million rupees. Pass marks of the entrance exam will be fixed at 60 per cent and issues of communication skills, critical thinking, moral science, humanities, and behavioral science will be incorporated in the entrance exam.
The students will be selected for MBBS and BDS programme on the basis of merit list. Earlier, Dr Govinda KC, who has repeatedly staged fast-unto-death demanding reforms in Nepal’s medical education sector and guarantee of people’s right to quality health services, had warned of resorting to another round of protest if his six-point demands, including the implementation of the Mathema report, were not fulfilled.
A computer-based Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) diagnosis and management decision support system has been designed and developed in Lalitpur.According to Nepal Heart Foundation, the system is the first of its kind in the country. It is a collaboration project between NHF and University of Greenwich, UK.
The project comprises of a team including Sanjib Raj Pandey, PhD research student, University of Greenwich, UK; Dr Jixin Ma, Prof Choi-Hong Lai, University of Greenwich, UK; Dr Prakash Raj Regmi and other doctors from NHF. Dr Regmi informed that untreated streptococcal throat infection which is common among Nepali children causes ARF. ARF and Rheumatic Heart Diseases (RHD) are considered some of the biggest health risks among Nepali children, in comparison to other heart diseases. “ARF/RHD is a challenging and life threatening disease among children aged between 5-15 years, especially in the rural areas of the country.
In Nepal, as many as 1,000 children die each year due to ARF/RHD. The diseases can be cured at the initial stage with proper diagnosis,” said Dr Regmi. Lack of awareness and ignorance of the initial symptoms are key causes of the damage. “Therefore, we hope this model will not only offer assistance to rural health professionals but also allow diagnosis of ARF at an early stage. The system will cut the patients’ costs and reduce government’s financial burden,” he said. Moreover, proper implementation and use of this model will support government in tracking down the cases of ARF.
Medical waste dumped along with other garbage has posed serious public health threats to people living on the banks of the Tinau river in Rupandehi. Butwal Sub-metropolis dis-poses around 50 tonnes of gar-bage on the river banks though people continue to use water from the river for drink-ing and other domestic use.
Bheshraj Khanal, a farmer at Aanandaban, said they are facing problems as the water from river used for irrigation is polluted with medical and other waste.Health professionals say around 80 percent of medical waste is dangerous. Such waste materials have chances to transmit 70 percent of diseases. Human or animal blood as well as body parts, blood-soaked bandages, dis-carded surgical gloves, cul-tures and swabs to inoculate cultures are found in the river.
Bheshraj Khanal, a farmer at Aanandaban, said they are facing problems as the water from river used for irrigation is polluted with medical and other waste.Health professionals say around 80 percent of medical waste is dangerous. Such waste materials have chances to transmit 70 percent of diseases. Human or animal blood as well as body parts, blood-soaked bandages, dis-carded surgical gloves, cul-tures and swabs to inoculate cultures are found in the river.
The Ministry of Health and Population has directed con-cerned authorities to manage medical waste through a scientific procedure involving segregation, collection, trans-portation, treatment and final disposal.However, health facilities in the district are yet to abide by the government regulation.
There are around 100 clinics, 20 hospitals and health posts in the district. Bishnu Khanal, a senior offi-cial at the sub-metropolis, said hospitals and clinics are not allowed to dispose medical waste with other garbage.Lumbini Zonal Hospital, meanwhile, burns its medical waste in an open area, affecting locals in the sur-rounding area.
Minister for Health and Population Khagaraj Adhikari today launched ‘Next Generation’ Family Planning Communication Campaign with an aim of repositioning family planning for the new generation and increasing the use of contraceptives among young married couples across the country.The campaign was launched at a programme organised in Lalitpur.
This is a three-year long campaign of the Ministry of Health and Population and National Health Education Information Communication Centre, in coordination with Family Health Division and support of the USAID Health Communication Campaign.
This is a three-year long campaign of the Ministry of Health and Population and National Health Education Information Communication Centre, in coordination with Family Health Division and support of the USAID Health Communication Campaign.
The campaign is based on research findings and the guidance of the MoHP National Health Sector Programme II, draft NHSP III, the National Health Communication Policy of 2012 and the draft National Family Planning Communication Strategy 2015-2020. According to National Demographic Health Survey 2011, family planning practices of over 56 per cent of women of reproductive age fall far below the national average. NHDS states that only 12 per cent use family planning methods to delay the first birth, fewer than 32 per cent adopt family planning services for birth spacing and fewer than 13 per cent use contraceptives within two months after delivery. Minister Adhikari said due to lack of awareness about the family planning among the public and the unavailability of contraceptives, people were not using family planning methods, forcing the government to launch the campaign. He said, “The young married couples of reproductive age should use modern contraceptives to reduce the risk of unwanted pregnancy.”
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