Kavrepalanchowk. The 10-bed Roshi Basic Hospital, which was washed away by the floods in Roshi rural municipality last year, has now been reconstructed into a five-bed hospital. The structure, constructed with the financial assistance of the World Health Organization (WHO), has been handed over to Roshi Rural Municipality through the Ministry of Health and Population.
The WHO has also provided assistance to the newly constructed structures, including medicines. The 10-bed basic hospital building at Roshi-1 was washed away by the flood at roshi-1 with a budget of Rs 60.5million from the federal government. Since then, the service has been provided through ‘tents’.
Chairman of Roshi Rural Municipality, Dinesh Lama, has expressed his gratitude for the temporary construction of the hospital as well as providing medical supplies. According to him, the hospital is located in ward no. 1of the rural municipality. Citizens of Namobuddha Municipality and Bethanchowk Rural Municipality will get the service. Chairman Lama said that the process for the construction of another 10-bed hospital would be started in the concerned bodies. WHO’s Nepal representative Dr Rajesh Sambhaji Raopandab said that the organization has been supporting Nepal’s health sector and will continue to work with the Government of Nepal in the days to come.
The landslide had completely damaged three major ‘pride’ projects, including the hospital constructed in the rural municipality. The flood water
s and landslides swept away the 9-dimfu, museum building, library building, picnic spot, parking lot and garden with ‘Damfu Live Museum’ built at a cost of Rs 140 million on about 70 ropanis of land at Kaldhunga of Roshi-11.
A total of 13 people including six women, three men, one boy and three girls were killed in the floods and landslides while 482 houses were completely damaged and 883 houses partially damaged. According to the rural municipality office, 2,544 families’ farmlands were damaged in the floods and landslides, while 160 drinking water projects, a concrete bridge, 47 schools and four health centres were damaged.
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