The Muglin Highway Hospital based in Icchakamana rural municiplaity-5, Muglin Bazaar is providing health service of Maharajgunj-based Teaching Hospital being operated by Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine.

The non-profit-making, charity-based highway hospital would provide the service of teaching hospital through the use of information and communications technology (ICT).

To this effect, IOM Dean Jagadish Prasad Agrawal and Highway Hospital chair Ram Bahadur Lama signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Kathmandu on Sunday in regard to the exchange of services.

With the signing of MoU, the Muglin Highway Hospital would provide specialist services and facilities of TU Teaching Hospital and Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Centre in a regular manner through ICT, chair Lama informed.

He further shared that in addition to the service the hospital would also offer regular mobile health camp, educational training, telemedicine platform research and development, regular follow-up of patients and route checkup facilities.

"Health service package including hospital admission would be offered in the first phase", Lama added. In the second phase of the two-year-long MoU, the Muglin Highway Hospital would be developed as an expanded health facility (hospital) of the Teaching Hospital, he shared.