Butwal. Butwal’s Lumbini Provincial Hospital has become the first in Nepal in the minimum service standards assessment. According to the Minimum Service Standards Evaluation Committee of the Directorate of Health, the hospital has succeeded in being first in the evaluation of the minimum service standards of secondary B level hospitals for the third time.
This year, the hospital scored 88 percent in the minimum standard assessment. The hospital’s medical superintendent Dr. Sudarshan Thapa told that this provincial hospital, which became the first by obtaining 80 percent marks last year, has obtained more marks this year.
After the survey of Lumbini Provincial Hospital by the Lumbini Provincial Health Directorate, it was informed that the hospital was the first in the evaluation and review conference organized for two days in Butwal.
The evaluation committee consisted of Ministry of Health and Population Kathmandu, Lumbini Province Health Directorate Dang and Nick Simmons Institute Kathmandu. Patients from Palpa, Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, Kapilvastu, Navalparasi along with Pyuthan, Syangja, Rukum, Rolpa and other districts of Lumbini province come to Lumbini Regional Hospital for treatment.