National Statistics Office Prepares Survey of Private Health Institutions Nationwide

Kathmandu. The National Statistics Office is preparing to survey private health institutions (hospitals) across the country.

Director of the Statistics Office, Tirtharaj Baral, informed that the survey is being conducted to study how much contribution private health institutions across the country have made to the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to him, the survey of private and community hospitals across the country will be carried out by enumerators. He stated that the data collection work will be carried out from the upcoming Baisakh until the end of Ashar.

“Currently, the process of selecting employees on contract is underway. We will train those employees,” he said, “and then we will send those employees to the hospitals to collect data.”

According to him, data such as the financial status of the hospitals and the number of employment opportunities provided by the hospitals will be collected through the survey. He mentioned that although the office intends to survey private health institutions every 10 years, there has been a delay of a few years.

Director Baral of the office informed that in the survey conducted in 2013, private health institutions contributed less than one percent to the country's GDP.

At that time, the survey was conducted in one hundred hospitals. This time, preparations are being made to survey 2,551 hospitals nationwide.