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Pokhara, August 14. The Gandaki Medical College in Pokhara will see an additional investment of $4 billion to improve the capacity of physical infrastructure. There are plans to increase the current 550-bed medical college to 750 beds. The Gandaki Medical College Teaching Hospital and Research Center believes that this will make medical education more systematic.
A group led by Khuma Aryal, who has been leading medical education and health services in western Nepal, is running the Gandaki Medical College Teaching Hospital and Research Centre in Pokhara. The group plans to expand infrastructure like medical jail and hospital from the Provident Fund leased building at Pokhara-9 Nayabazar to Pokhara-27 Ritthepani.
Chairman Khuma Aryal on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the infrastructure of Gandaki Medical College in Rithepani.
The foundation was laid for building a hospital at Rithepani by running the college as a city hospital and adding more services.
Chairman Ayal said that in order to make health services in the Gandaki region organized and accessible, the foundation stone of an educational building and a hospital was laid in Risepani.
Ariyal said after expanding the services of Belahawa Universal Medical College, the focus now is on building infrastructure to expand medical education and health services at Gandaki Medical College.
He said that health education and health services should be strengthened. Ariyar claimed that they had just participated in the work of Nepalgunj Medical College and Kolhapur Hospital not long ago, and would ensure medical services throughout western Nepal.
Ariyal said the hospital to be built in Risepani is likely to be ready in two years. The foundation stone of another educational building near the hospital has also been laid.
Gandaki Medical College was established in 1964 and has been training health personnel and providing health services. The management claims to have invested 500 crore in the college so far.
Due to the increasing population density and excessive increase in the number of patients in the hospital due to the operation of the University Hospital at Pokhara-9, the hospital currently being operated will be operated as a city hospital on the company’s own land at Ritthepani President Ayal said a state-of-the-art teaching hospital covering an area of 1,000 square feet with 750 beds will be constructed soon.
Gandaki Medical College has produced 659 BDS graduates (MBBS), 221 graduates in Nursing and Allied Sciences, 50 postgraduate MD/MS and MPH.
The college administrator made health education more organized starting with the new building, Ravindra Prasad Shrestha said. Even now, the college providing medical education is still at the same place.
Currently, besides the medical education at the college, patients are also being treated through the cardiology centre which is equipped with a blood bank, state-of-the-art MRI, city scan and catheterisation lab. The compulsion of patients to travel to Kathmandu has ended after the Pokhara Gandaki Medical College started providing cardiac-related catheterisation lab services. A 24-hour dialysis service will also be arranged as the hospitals are over-stressed, Shrestha said.
There is no separate cancer hospital in Pokhara. We will continue to focus on cancer treatment. The infrastructure will also be ready for kidney transplantation,” said Dr. Shrestha, the chief administrative officer.
According to Dr. Ram Adhikari from the university, 200,000 patients are treated in this hospital every year.
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