Equip Healthcare Well

The groundwork for all happiness is good health, says Leigh Hunt. Yes, without good health, a person can’t lead a meaningful life no matter how much material wealth one accumulates. So health comes first over any other priorities of life. But an individual alone can’t be able to afford for sound physical and mental life. This demands state’s greater role in ensuring quality and affordable health services to all citizens irrespective of their social and economic status. Nepal’s constitution has made it mandatory for the state to provide free basic health services to every citizen. Although health is a fundamental right of the people, it has been a herculean task for the state agencies to meet this constitutional requirement owing to the insufficient budget and infrastructure, dearth of doctors and nurses and so on.