Prime Story: Medical Assistance to Nepali Politicians
7:56 PM
The “ex-president will receive medical assistance for his medical.Ram
Baran Yadav, a physician-turned-politician who rose to be the first
president of the country when Nepal turned into a Republic in May 2008.
The cabinet has decided to bear entire expenses for his treatment of
prostrate cancer in the United States and released Rs six million as the
initial installment in addition to ‘to and fro’ travel allowance for
three attendants and daily subsistence allowances. He was diagnosed with
the ailment recently in PGI, Chandigarh – Dr Yadav did his MD from here
in the 80s – with full expenses borne by the Government of India, but
it is not known whether the PGI suggested further treatment in the US.
Dr Yadav will be going to Henry Ford Cancer Hospital in the US.
Doctors in Nepal are unhappy over a large number of Nepali leaders going
abroad for specialised treatment ‘undermining the expertise and
efficiency at home.’ “What upsets us is the fact that none of these
elites bother to have the mandatory recommendations of experts when they
decide to go abroad for medical treatment,” a senior doctor working in a
well equipped hospital here told ENS pleading anonymity.
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