From the Hospital Director's Desk

Completing the first MBBS after two years the students attend the Teaching Hospital of Nepal Medical College and learns to deal with "LIVES". During the posting in the hospital the medical students learn to communicate with patients. They are taught, guided and supervised by experienced faculty members who stress upon respecting the human values, systematic approach to the patients and sensitise towards solving the patient’s problems by making diagnosis of the alignment (disease) and institute correct and best management of the problems in order to achieve a good recovery early as possible. The 700 bed Teaching Hospital of Nepal Medical College has got required clinical and paraclinical departments and units that have enough clinical cases (patients) where the medical students can observe, experience, learn and take active participation in managing wide varieties clinical problems (diseases) that they will come across in their medical career in the future.

To support and achieve the best outcome, NMCTH has got the international standard of clinical paraclinical, nonclinical departments together with necessary logistic support and service arrangements, which makes the Hospital service comparable with any other national hospitals.

The staff at different levels of hospital management is very much concerned to the patients' care and interest in their respective areas. The hospital management claims that the patient are well looked after and taken care bearing in mind their social, economical, geographical, religious status of the infirms. Every year increasing in patients flow, diseases cure rate and decreasing mortality rate are the indicators of hospital success and achievement. In addition the hospital management is always concerned about with patient’s satisfaction.

To address the demand development of subspecialty services the hospital is initiating to establish subspecialty services phasewise with modern equipments. We claim that these subspecialties services will be the mile stone in the developmental history of Nepal Medial College Teaching Hospitals. It will benefit the patients at large and medical students and strengthen the college post graduate training and help to develop the speciality manpower today and in days to come.

We are confident that these doctors who gain experience at Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital would be able to provide quality health care services to the community and will be well accepted by concern national and international institutions and by the community at large.

Dr Manohar Lal Shrestha
Hospital Director