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constituency for the purpose of providing easily available health services to the
people there. There is a provision of an MBBS doctor to be the chief of this center.
This center provides curative services to the people. The responsibility of this center
is to execute the policy prepared by the upper level health related bodies. The
functions to be carried out by a primary health center are listed below.

a. To care the patients who are referred from other health centers

b. To refer the patients who cannot be cured there to upper level health hospitals

c. To provide health services such as vaccination, health education, family
planning service, maternal child health care service, etc.

d. To conduct health related programs

e. To follow the instructions given by the upper level health related bodies

f. To monitor and evaluate the works carried out by the health posts and sub-

health posts.
4. Ayurveda Hospital

The Department of Ayurveda remains as the central body of ayurvedic health
agencies. The major function of the Department of Ayurveda is to make policy,
rules and regulations, planning, monitoring, evaluating and coordinating all the
ayurvedic hospitals and ayurvedic dispensaries. Zonal ayurvedic hospitals, zonal
ayurvedic dispensaries, district ayurvedic dispensaries and area (ilaka)level ayurveda
dispensaries remain under this department. In this hospital, health care services

are provided by improving the food and sleeping habits of patients and by using
ayurvedic medicines. Vaidyas and ayurvedic doctors are appointed for this health
service.

5. Homeopathy Hospital

Homoeopathy therapy is one of the health services among other modern allopathic
therapy, ayurvedic therapy, natural therapy and acupuncture therapy are practised

to provide health care to the citizens of the country. In this therapy, the diseases are
treated by prescribing less amount of medicine. In Nepal, Pashupati Homeopathy
Hospital was established by the government in 2010 B. S. This is the only one

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