Health Minister Directs Virtual Meeting on Burn Treatment and Mental Health Services

Kathmandu. A virtual meeting was held with the newly appointed Vice-Chancellors of Health Sciences Institutes at the direction of Health and Food Hygiene Minister Nisha Mehta.

The current status of burn treatment management across the country, available services, challenges, and future action plans were extensively reviewed in the meeting. Each Health Sciences Institute presented the status of burn treatment services operated in their institution, available resources, and future plans.

The meeting agreed to implement action plans based on a detailed mapping of the required manpower, training, infrastructure, equipment, medicines, and other resources on a provincial basis to make burn treatment services effective.

Similarly, a decision was made to make the psychosocial counseling centers operating in the Health Sciences Institutes more organized, effective, and service-oriented. The meeting also discussed providing effective information about psychosocial counseling services to service recipients coming to the hospital for treatment and making necessary counseling easily available.

Minister Mehta stated that she will intensify the necessary coordination and implementation for service expansion and strengthening in all provinces, prioritizing the improvement of access and quality of burn treatment and mental health services.