Bir Hospital

Bir Hospital (बीर अस्पताल) is the oldest and one of the busiest hospitals in Nepal. It is located at the center of Kathmandu city. The hospital is run by the National Academy of Medical Sciences, a government agency since 2003.[1][2][2]

Bir Hospital
Geography
LocationKathmandu, Nepal
Coordinates27.705053°N 85.313608°E / 27.705053; 85.313608
Services
Beds458 beds
History
Opened1889
Links
Websitenams.org.np
ListsHospitals in Nepal

The hospital provides medical and surgical treatments. It current has a capacity of 535 beds.

It provides some post graduate medical training e.g. general surgery, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, pathology etc.

History

Bir Hospital was established in 1947 B.S (1890 AD) by Bir Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana[3] and was initially called Prithvi Bir Hospital, Prithvi being the name of the then king Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah[4]. It had 30 beds.

Providers from hospital

Disaster Response

The hospital's disaster management plan was used first in 1988 following a stampede incident in the national stadium in Kathmandu.

Surgery
Bir Hospital building in Kathmandu.

The surgery department is the oldest department of the country. It has different units as General surgery, Gastro and hepatobiliary surgery unit, Burn and Plastic surgery Unit, Urosurgery, Cardiothoracic, Neurosurgery. The general surgery department performs about 3,000 elective and emergency operations each year, and similar number of minor general surgical cases. The department needs increase in trained manpower and equipment, as well as refurbishment of the wards and increase in the number of beds as well as operation days.

Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit

Burn and Plastic surgery unit has 16 beds, including 3 burn ICU beds. Every year more than 100 severely burned patients used to be admitted in this unit. The unit is currently run by two general surgeons. The WHO Nepal has sponsored a surgeon (Dr. Peeyush Dahal) to have fellowship training in plastic and reconstructive surgery. This unit is also conducting the research in burn care management.

Dental Department

Dental department opened a new Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics unit in 2009. MDS degrees in prosthodontics and periodontology & oral implantology have also been offered since 2009.

MRI Service

Bir Hospital has started MRI service from Chaitra 5, 2072 B.S.

Funding and challenges

The yearly budget of NPR 27 Crore (about US$ 2.371 million), two thirds of which is funded by the government. [5] The hospital has been facing financial difficulties for many years now. The lack of adequate funding, non-functional equipment and inability of the administration to get those running pose significant challenges to the hospital's functioning. Moreover, inappropriate politicization of the administration seems to be the major contributor to the sorry state of affairs at the hospital.[6]

To help in the financing of the hospital expenses, it runs a medical school, which conducts post-graduate medical, surgical and other specialists training and also runs bachelor's level in nursing.[7][8]

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See also

References
  1. "Two workers killed as hoist at under-construction building of Bir Hospital snaps". Setopati. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  2. "Bir Hospital gynaecology unit rarely sees patients". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  3. "Bir Hospital Clean-up Campaign commences". News, sport and opinion from the Kathmandu Tribune's global edition. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  4. Dixit, Hemang (1999). The Quest for Health: The Health Services of Nepal. Educational Enterprise (P) Limited. p. 24.
  5. Nepalnews.com Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Read online latest news and articles from Nepal". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  7. Bir Hospital Appeal Archived 1 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Images from Bir Hospital lab facilities in both histopathology and tissue typing". 27 December 2001. Archived from the original on 27 December 2001. Retrieved 30 March 2019.

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