Kathmandu, Jan. 8 -- The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has been planning to mobilise health workers-doctors, nurses, and female community health volunteers-to provide health care to bedridden elderly people who have long been deprived of treatment.

Officials say preparations to provide service to the target population at home has been completed, and health workers will be deployed after a week.

"Nurses will take details of the bedridden patients, examine blood pressure, blood sugar and other factors and recommend doctors' care if required," said Dr Deewash Neupane, an official at the Health Department of the city office. "The exact number of bedridden elderly people who have been deprived of access to health care is not known, but they co...