Envisioning a high-quality health system in Nepal: if not now, when?

Nepal was one of the nine national Commissions that participated in The Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) era.1 which brought the widely acknowledged, yet insufficiently addressed, problem of systemic quality deficits in health systems to the forefront of the global health discourse.1 The HQSS Commission calls upon countries to make three interconnected commitments to reach the SDG goal of ‘health for all by 2025’. Countries are asked to first, invest in health systems that enhance health; second, to provide services valued by people; and third, to remain accountable for delivering high-quality care.