Posted by Anup Baral March 31, 2016 :
Birgunj is a metropolitan municipality and border town in Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. It lies 283 km south of the capital Kathmandu, attached to north of the border of the Indian state of Bihar.The town has significant economic importance for Nepal as most of its trade with India is via Birgunj and the Indian town of Raxaul. Tribhuvan Highway links Birgunj to Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.Patients visiting the hospital have been deprived of various medical facilities owing to vacant posts. The posts-- eleventh level Physician, Pathologist, Psychiatrist, General Surgeon, Orthopedic Surgeon, ENT Surgeon, Obstetrician, Anesthesio- logist, Dental Surgeon and Chief Nursing Administrator--are vacant.The hospital has also been unable to reappoint five nurses whose contracts had ended towards the end of the fiscal year. With this, the hospital is struggling to provide medical services to the ever increasing number of patients.