{"id":295365,"date":"2026-04-15T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=295365"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:50:11","slug":"free-beds-in-every-hospital-for-poor-and-underprivileged-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/free-beds-in-every-hospital-for-poor-and-underprivileged-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Free beds in every hospital for poor and underprivileged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The government led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah has brought into operation the web portal to implement the commitment to provide free beds to the poor and helpless patients visiting the hospitals for treatment. <\/p>\n<p>The government had announced to implement this provision within 30 days in the 100-point agenda of governance reforms made public on March 26. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health and Population has launched a web portal named <a href=\"https:\/\/freehealth.mohp.gov.np\/\"> Free Health Dashboard &#8211; Ministry of Health and Population<\/a>. How many free beds are available in which hospital? The details of how many free beds have been provided to the patients and how many are left can be accessed on this portal in an up-to-date manner. <\/p>\n<p>The aggrieved party can immediately lodge a complaint against the hospital at Hello Sarkar, the Ministry of Health or the District Administration Office against the hospitals that are reluctant to provide free beds. <\/p>\n<p>Clause 70 D of the Government of Nepal&#8217;s Health Institution Operation Standard-2077 BS states that 10 percent of the total beds should be allocated for the poor, helpless and neglected patients coming to the hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Article 35 of the Constitution of Nepal, 2015 has stipulated that every citizen shall have the right to free basic health services from the State, no one shall be deprived of emergency health services and every citizen shall have equal access to health services. This online system has been developed with the objective of making free treatment services effective, accessible and transparent in hospitals for the implementation of the provision of Health Institution Operation Standards 2077. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>According to the details available on the portal, the licensed hospitals operating in Koshi, Bagmati and Lumbini provinces have a total of 5026 beds and 854 beds will be available free of cost. Hospitals of Madhes, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces are yet to be connected to the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The government led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah has brought into operation the web portal to implement the commitment to provide free beds to the poor and helpless patients visiting the hospitals for treatment. The government had announced to implement this provision within 30 days in the 100-point agenda of governance reforms made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":253298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45195,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-health-insurance-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295366,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295365\/revisions\/295366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/253298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}