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10. Karnali Institute of Health Science

Fig: 6
Bir Hospital TU Teaching Hospital
These central hospitals provide specified health services to the specific diseases. They
provide the facilities of laboratory, X- ray, surgery (major and minor), etc. These hospitals
are provided with specialists to identify and treat different diseases.

b. Regional Level/ Regional Hospital
The regional level health services include
regional hospitals and regional training centres.
The regional hospitals provide curative as well
as referral health services. There are only two
regional hospitals in Nepal though the Ministry
of Health has made the provision of one regional
hospital in each development region. The Western
Regional Hospital (Pokhara) and the Eastern
Regional Hospital (Dharan) are the two regional Fig: 7
hospitals of Nepal. The Eastern Regional Hospital,
Dharan is now known as B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS). The regional
hosptials contain 50– 250 beds. They perform the following functions.
a. Follow the plans and policies prepared and instructed by the Ministry of Health.
b. Formulate, implement and supervise the health programmes
c. Co-ordinate with the zonal and district level health organizations
d. Provide the facilities of specialists (specialized doctors) in the regional and sub-
regional hospitals
e. Provide the facilities of laboratory and minor surgery
f. Provide referral health services.

c. Zonal level/ Zonal Hospitals
There are 10 zonal hospitals in Nepal. There are
also ayurbedic clinics and ayurbedic dispensaries
in different zones of Nepal. The zonal hospitals
also provide curative and referral health services.
Each zonal hospital has the provision of 50-200
beds. They perform the following functions. Fig: 8
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