Ministry of Health and Food Hygiene Undergoes Organizational Restructuring

Kathmandu. The Ministry of Health and Food Hygiene has started homework for organizational restructuring to make its workflow more agile, robust, and effective.

This step is being taken with the objective of making the ministry's daily administrative work and decision-making process faster.

Under this new plan, the ministry aims to modify the currently existing 5 divisions and keep only 3 based on their nature of work. The ministry is also preparing to merge departments with similar nature of work into one.

In addition, the ministry is preparing to establish a new Information Technology Department to connect the health sector with modern technology and develop a digital system. This new department is expected to help in managing health data across the country and in technology-friendly services.

This restructuring will also address about 30 percent of the positions that have been unnecessarily concentrated at the ministry level for a long time and have shown duplication in performance. The ministry has moved forward with the work of removing those positions from the center and adjusting them in other lower-level structures under its own jurisdiction.

The Ministry of Health believes that this management will significantly reduce the administrative operating expenses of the ministry and further strengthen the service delivery at the lower level.