Minister Basnet insists on primary prevention of diseases with naturopathy

Kathmandu: Minister for Health and Population, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, has underlined the need for primary prevention of diseases when medical healthcare services are becoming unaffordable.

Minister Basnet advised the public to practice Yoga and seek naturopathy for the primary prevention of diseases. On the occasion of the ninth International Yoga Day, he inaugurated the Yoga and Naturopathy Building built by Kathmandu University at Chaukot, Panauti-5. He said, ‘Medical care is becoming expensive, and in this context, it is better to focus on the prevention of diseases.’

As he said, naturopathy could be a great help to live a healthy life and its significance needs to be explored fully. ‘The first condition of healthy life is that one should stay away from taking illness. At least an hour each should be allocated for personal fitness such as Yoga,’ he asserted.

The Health Minister took time to say that he had already directed hospitals to allocate 10 percent of beds for free treatment of incidents and needy communities. He also shared about the government’s plan to build a trauma center at Dhulikhel Hospital.

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