Background: The Constitution of Nepal under Article 35 Clause 1 mentions ‘Every citizen shall have the right to free basic health services from the state and no one shall be deprived of emergency health services.’ The Public Health Service Act 2018 formulated to ensure the constitutional rights related to health, has defined “Emergency health services” as the initial and immediate service to be provided as it is necessary to free the lives of the persons from risk, save the lives or organs from being lost, whose lives are in the risky condition upon falling into the unexpected incident or emergency condition.1 Constitutional essence of Emergency health services has been further addressed under Chapter 2 – Rights, Duties of Service Recipients and Responsibilities of Health Institutions, Article 33 of which describes the establishment of emergency health service fund, while Article 48 of Chapter 6 describes Emergency health service and management. Furthermore, in Chapter 4 of Public Health Regulation 2020, Rule 8 commits that ‘every health institution shall immediately provide emergency services to patients that have come for treatment in such institution and, if it is necessary, the patient shall be admitted to the hospital’, while Rule 7 ensures that ‘if the emergency health services required to treat the patient are not available in a given health institution, the health institution shall immediately provide whatever emergency health services are available, and after providing the reason for additional treatment, the patient shall be immediately referred to the most convenient health institution that provides the required services.’ Towards this, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has approved the emergency health services package and its standard treatment protocol. Also, MoHP has been already approved the orientation program of STP of EHSP for the province and Municipal levels. This program, master ToT and it will be further rolled out through all provinces level.
Objective:
To conduct master ToT at provincial level health worker for implementation of EHS-STP across different levels of health facilities
Other specific objectives;
A common understanding of use and application of this STP across all provinces
Sensitize on EHS priority, its importance, and resource allocation
Partner: Curative Service Division and WHO Nepal
Duration: October – December 2021