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Kathmandu. The Ministry of Health and Population and the World Federation of Hemophilia have signed an agreement to provide free medicines to patients with hemophilia, a hereditary blood clotting disorder.
The Private Secretariat of the Minister of Health and Population has informed that the agreement in this regard was signed between the Federation and the ministry at the Department of Medicines Management last Friday.
Now, the necessary medicines for the treatment of this disease will be obtained from the Federation and the Ministry of Health and Population will provide them from other government hospitals in addition to federal and provincial hospitals, according to a press note issued by the Private Secretariat today.
Ministry of Health and Population Spokesperson Dr. According to Prakash Budhathoki, currently 900 people in the country have been identified as suffering from this disease. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 5,000 such patients in Nepal who have not been identified. In the 2078 BS census, it is estimated that 0.8 percent of the 2.2 percent who were disabled may have hemophilia.
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