{"id":28822,"date":"2025-08-14T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=28822"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:07:28","slug":"post-of-medical-officer-remains-vacant-for-years-in-parsa-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/post-of-medical-officer-remains-vacant-for-years-in-parsa-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Post of medical officer remains vacant for years in Parsa prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Birgunj (Parsa), Aug 14: The post of medical officer in the District Prison Parsa has remained vacant for several years. The district prison has one post for the doctor but a Health Assistant is providing the health care services at present.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of doctor&#8217;s post remaining vacant for years came to the public notice only after an inmate, Rahul Sah Turaha, died on Tuesday while receiving treatment in Narayani Hospital.<br \/>\nThe stakeholders have raised the issue of deployment of a doctor in the prison for regular health checkups of the jailbirds.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of District Prison, Khimraj Bhusal, said that the Department of Prison Management has been written seeking deployment of a doctor as per the post here.<br \/>\nCurrently, more than 1,300 jailbirds including foreign nationals are being housed in the Parsa Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birgunj (Parsa), Aug 14: The post of medical officer in the District Prison Parsa has remained vacant for several years. The district prison has one post for the doctor but a Health Assistant is providing the health care services at present. The issue of doctor&#8217;s post remaining vacant for years came to the public notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28824,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28822\/revisions\/28824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}