While NOH has been giving services to the needy patients on a daily basis, there have also been made plans to improve services for itself and also to contribute to production of manpower. ORTHOPAEDIC ASSISTANT
For a country with a population of over 26 million only about a 100 orthopaedic surgeons are offering services in various government and private hospitals. Most of the practising surgeons are located in urban centres. Some patients coming to NOH for care already have developed complications because of delays in access to care or because the primary health worker has not recognized the problem at all.
NOH has recognized the need to train primary health care workers for orthopaedic care so that complications can be avoided and disability prevented. NOH is working with the Nick Simons Institute (NSI) to develop and implement a course for these Orthopaedic Assistants. NOH hopes to contribute to the available orthopaedic manpower so that care level can be uplifted.
ORTHOPAEDIC RESIDENT PROGRAM
Likewise an orthopaedic resident program is being discussed with various organisations so that a few orthopaedic surgeons can be produced from NOH itself.
CITY CLINIC
NOH is planning to build a satellite city clinic in the heart of Kathmandu because the location of the hospital is on the outskirts of Kathmandu. The city clinic will be designed to cater to paying patients who will be attracted to indulge in the modern surgical services of the hospital. The plan is to make this clinic self-sustaining and also to cross-subsidize the poor patients in the general wards.
COMPUTERISATION
The hospital hopes to interconnect every department including the administration with each other via computers. Currently the computers in use are not interconnected and not every department has computers to work with. With interconnected computers NOH hopes to improve work efficiency.
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