Kathmandu, December 20
Former Minister for Health and leader of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Deepak Bohara demanded that the monthly livelihood allowance for patients suffering from kidney diseases be continued.
Issuing a press release today he questioned on the Oli-led government's decision to discontinue Rs 5000 monthly livelihood allowance to patients suffering from kidney failure, cancer and paralysis.
The government had started providing Rs 5,000 monthly livelihood allowance to patients suffering from kidney failure, cancer and paralysis from January 26, 2018 after a Cabinet meeting on December 28, 2017 decided to provide Rs 5000 to patients suffering from life-threatening diseases.
The then prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurating the programme had handed cheques worth Rs 5,000 each to 27 patients receiving treatment at Bir Hospital and National Trauma Centre.
The distribution of monthly livelihood allowance for the patients was put on hold later after the change in the government.
The kidney patients have been regularly staging protest demanding the monthly allowance.
Expressing his solidarity with the patients, leader Bohara said, “Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli himself is a kidney patient. But why did the government decide to discontinue the program? Wasn't the decision beneficial to ailing patients. Wasn't the decision in favour of the patients?