{"id":987524317,"date":"2021-12-26T03:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T02:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/nepal-reallocated-health-budget-to-response-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:46:36","slug":"nepal-reallocated-health-budget-to-response-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/nepal-reallocated-health-budget-to-response-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal reallocated health budget to response COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal reported spending nearly half of the health budget to combat Covid-19 and address its impact on people\u2019s livelihoods and the economy. To cover the costs, the government was forced to cut budget for various large hospitals in the country. Public health experts have highlighted the neglect to other healthcare services at the expense of COVID-19 pandemic. Read this <a href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/099835012032119520\/pdf\/P17208601e4d9102009d990f176775b9f18.pdf\">World Bank Report, \u2018Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development: Nepal Public Expenditure Review,\u2019&nbsp;<\/a>to know more about Nepal&#8217;s public expenditure on COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>To know more, read a full news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandupost.com\/national\/2021\/12\/12\/how-pandemic-ate-up-a-huge-chunk-of-budget\">The Kathmandu Post<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Have anything to say about Nepal\u2019s health financing and social health protection? Please leave your comments below.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Photo by&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/p\/gettyimages\/\">William_Potter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal reported spending nearly half of the health budget to combat Covid-19 and address its impact on people\u2019s livelihoods and the economy. To cover the costs, the government was forced to cut budget for various large hospitals in the country. Public health experts have highlighted the neglect to other healthcare services at the expense of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[117,124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}