Dec 06, Kathmandu - Nepal's first President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav has said that Nepal has been providing quality eye care services.

Inaugurating the newly constructed building of Birgunj Drishti Eye, Nose, Ear and Throat Hospital on Saturday, he said that Nepal's eye care is specialized and superior compared to the northern states of India.

"Since the Panchayat era, Nepal has been providing quality and effective eye treatment services," Yadav said. "The example of patients from states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and other states in India coming here for quality eye treatment also illustrates the development of services here. These are positive achievements for us."

He pointed out the need to further improve the quality of services provided to patients by doctors, nurses and healthcare workers. "Patients come for treatment with high expectations from doctors and healthcare workers. Therefore, those involved in this profession should not shy away from providing quality services."

First President Yadav expressed the view that the medical profession should be influenced by humanitarian service rather than making money. “Medicine is a sacred profession, people have complete faith in it,” he said, a doctor himself. “Since there are other professions that make money, it should not be defamed and should be focused on human and social service.”

Executive Director of the hospital, Bhairaja Shrestha, informed that the hospital has been providing eye, nose, ear, and throat treatment services from its newly constructed state-of-the-art building.

Medical Director of the hospital, Hari Sharma, said that the hospital has been providing treatment with the spirit that no patient should become blind due to lack of money. Eye specialists, Dr. Radhakrishna Koirala and Dr. Bir Singh Thapa, were honored on the occasion.

Hospital Chairman, Bishwaraj Gautam, expressed his commitment to provide state-of-the-art services to patients in the coming days.