Pandemic and Covid vaccination affect several other health programmes

Despite the increasing burden of diseases and responsibilities, there have been no significant increments to the human resource, officials say.

Health Office Lalitpur could not purchase a heating system for birthing centres in the ongoing fiscal year. Neither could it run a programme targeting adolescent health. The provincial government had allocated a special grant of Rs15 million for the two programmes but the amount has frozen as it remained idle throughout the fiscal year.