Overview of Health Academia

MoHP and its affiliated entities have undergone signifcant transformation and restructuring as a part of country’s federalization process. A key milestone in this journey was report of the high-level committee on health profession education policy. This report recommended the decentralization of medical colleges and establishment of at least one medical college/ academy/health institution in each province. In provinces where no such institution existed previously, both the federal and provincial government are making efforts to establish a new one. Currently, there are seven federal level medical academia, as shown below. These institutions are autonomous in terms of administration and fnances and are not-for-proft. All of them all are under the authority of the MoHP, except for NAIHS, which is run by Welfare Fund of the Nepali Army under the Ministry of Defence. There are two provincial level academia one each in Madhesh Province and Bagmati Province.

Each of the academia have their own teaching hospitals with at least one tertiary level hospital for major clinical attachments, as guided by the criteria of the medical education policy. NAMS at present has three federal level hospitals for major clinical attachmentsBir Hospital, Kanti Children Hospital and Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital. In addition, for need based clinical posting, additional hospitals are attached like Mental Hospital, Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center, B.P Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, NPHL and others. The hospitals affiliated with these academies are government-owned federal hospitals, except for the Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) and B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), which have hospitals owned by the academy itself.

Source: DoHS Annual Health Report 2079/80