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Even though it has been three years since the Municipal Hospital began operating from the old health post building, service delivery has been affected due to the incomplete construction of the new hospital building. Balkrishna Sharma, a resident, expressed that although the health post has been upgraded to a municipal hospital providing services, the incomplete construction of the new building has caused issues with service delivery. Due to this delay in construction of the 15-bed hospital, locals will have to wait longer to receive services. The hospital is currently operational through the services of medical officers.

An agreement was signed on July 7, 2021, with Mahalakshmi Jugal JV for the construction of the hospital in Baglung Municipality-13 Paiyumpata, with a contract of Rs 12,87,00,000. The hospital was to be completed by June 5. However, only the slope of the second floor of the hospital building has been completed so far. Sobin Gharti, engineer of Baglung Municipality, said that even after three years of the contract agreement, only 50 % of the work has been completed. After the initial deadline in June passed, it was extended by one year. Following that expiration of the extension, the deadline has been extended again for another year.

Narayan Paudel, Chairperson of Ward No. 13, said that although they were preparing to complete the final floor gradient work, the workers left the hospital construction site and went home because the road leading to the hospital was blocked, halting their work. Once the hospital construction is completed, residents of Rayadanda, Paiyumpata, Amlachaur, and Narayansthan in Baglung Municipality will have easy access to health services.

 

Srijana Panta