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KEEPING MAOISTS back home, Nepal has decided to have a healthy relationship with its Indian Nawabi big brother?Lucknow. But, it has nothing to do with political developments.
KEEPING MAOISTS back home, Nepal has decided to have a healthy relationship with its Indian Nawabi big brother—Lucknow. But, it has nothing to do with political developments.
It’s Nepal’s BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) efforts to have a crossover tie-up with the King George’s Medical University.
The two instsitutes have signed an MoU and are giving final shape to help each other develop as centres of cost-effective healthcare. Experts from these institutes would interact and guide each other to achieve the goal.
Under the MoU, the KGMU will help BPKIHS in training faculty members and Post Graduate students. The two institutes will be engaged in collaborative research to evolve a better health system for both the countries.
The KGMU may also take in to post graduate courses in the faculties of medical sciences for the candidates recommended by the BPKIHS and nominated by the government of India. The KGMU would also provide M. Phil in Clinical Epidemiology to the faculty nominated by the BPKIHS.
To strengthen patient care the KGMU has also been asked to help BPKIHS in developing specialty and super specialty services by deputing senior faculty members on duty there.
It may be mentioned that the process was initiated long back and the MoU was signed by the vice chancellors of the two institutes, Prof KM Singh of KGMU and Prof Shekhar Koirala of BPKIHS. A formal meeting between the officials of the two institutes was held on Monday. Discussions were held between the representatives KGMU and BPKIHS, who came from Dharan (Nepal), to formally implement the MoU in the current session.
“The proposal can be vital to exchange expertise from Nepal. It would be kept in the meeting of head of departments before actually starting the process for implementing it,” said the KGMU VC, Prof SK Agrawal.
As part of the MoU a telemedicine network is also proposed between the two institutes, which would facilitate clinical expertise for the patients coming to these medical institutes.
It may be mentioned that every year thousands of patients come to the city from neighbouring Nepal and get treated in KGMU and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. A large number of cases of Japanese Encephalitis from Nepal also rush to the state capital. Experts hope if an expertise is developed in Nepal, the patients would not require to rush to India.
BPKIHS is a residential university spread over 699 acres of land area and plans 500-bed facility. The institute has drafted a need- based curriculum for its MBBS students. Some faculty members in this institute are from India who went in the past to help develop the health services in Nepal.