Kathmandu, February 12
The government has finally agreed to revise the VIP convoy protocol to manage the convoys accompanying VIP state officials thanks to the doctors’ protest.
One of the points of the agreement signed with the protesting Nepal Medical Association reads that the government will revise the VIP convoy standard operating procedure to ensure that all emergency services including health are smooth during street movement of the VIPs such as the president and the vice-president.
The government has expressed its commitment to implementing the deal as soon as possible.
The association resorted to the strike after the police beat Dr Janith Singh of the National Trauma Centre during his movement on the road around the visit of President Bidya Devi Bhandari to the parliament building on Friday.
Following the incident, stakeholders were calling on the government to make a revision to the VIP convoy protocol that makes the public suffer.
