Healthy Local Levels

Many well-trained doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other healthcare workers from Nepal have been migrating to developed countries in an alarming rate in search of better career opportunities. The continuous brain drain has caused the dearth of specialised doctors and health professionals in hospitals operating at central, provincial and local levels. On the one hand, there is the demand to increase budget in the health sector from the three-tier governments every year to overcome acute shortage of medical professionals and health infrastructures.