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Nepali Congress telling govt not to dissolve hospitals named after Koiralas

File: PM’s residence in Baluwatar

Kathmandu, January 15

Senior leaders of the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, say they are holding a meeting with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Tuesday, after they got a hint that the government was going to dissolve two hospitals named after the party leaders.

The party suspends that the government is scrapping proposed Girija Prasad Koirala Respiratory Centre of Dulegaunda in Tanahun and Sushil Koirala Cancer Hospital of Banke as a recent Cabinet meeting did not approve the Ministry of Health’s proposal to keep them under the federal government.

The party’s senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel had made the same request by organising a press conference on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is yet to confirm his time for the meeting, according to sources at the Prime Minister’s secretariat in Baluwatar. However, they are hopeful that the meeting will take place by the evening today.

“It’s not that he is not meeting them. But, the prime minister is busy,” an official says, “Time has not been fixed, but the meeting may take place by the evening.”

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