Government mulls covering childbirth-related lab test costs

Kathmandu, Oct. 8 -- Amid criticism over an incident in which a poor woman in labour was forced to give birth outside a hospital in Rajbiraj last month, the Family Welfare Division under the Departmen... Read More

What we know about suspected pneumonic plague case in Siberia

Kathmandu, Oct. 6 -- year-old lab technician died in Russia's Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia after developing severe pneumonia, amid reports that she may have been exposed to plague. Nearly 200 peo... Read More

Nepal to field Dr Sangeeta Kaushal Mishra for WHO regional chief

Kathmandu, Oct. 5 -- Nepal is set to contest the leadership role of the World Health Organisation's South-East Asia Regional Office, as the top post of the UN regional health body has been left vacant... Read More

Floods drive 33 pregnant women to Kathmandu for childbirth

Kathmandu, Oct. 2 -- Pregnant women from flood-hit areas of Rasuwa and Nuwakot have been forced to travel to Kathmandu to give birth after the August 26 floods disrupted roads and health services in t... Read More

Scrub typhus is spreading across Nepal. Here's what you need to know

Kathmandu, Oct. 1 -- If you are in an area where scrub typhus is being reported and develop a high fever, particularly with shaking chills, severe headache, body ache, swollen lymph nodes or a painles... Read More

Nepal flood survivors are leaving temporary camps as government delays rehabilitation

Kathmandu, Sept. 30 -- Blemde Ghale, 28, a resident of Khalte in Rasuwa, lost four members of his family-his mother, his eight-year-old son Roman, and his two brothers- in the Bhotekoshi flood. Ghale ... Read More

A four-year-old died of rabies at home last week, but his death does not appear in government records

Nepal, Sept. 28 -- On September 23, a four-year-old boy from Sindhuli was rushed to Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kathmandu after he developed rabies symptoms. The following day... Read More

Avoid long-distance travel from Friday to Sunday, suspend Himalayan treks: Met office

Kathmandu, Sept. 23 -- The Meteorological Forecasting Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has cautioned all to suspend trekking in the Himalayan region and those already on trekkin... Read More

For Bhotekoshi flood survivors, the tuin is an ordeal

Nepal, Sept. 23 -- A few days ago, Gokarna Adhikari, a resident of Dandathok in ward 7 in Bidur Municipality, set out for Kathmandu, after his heart patient father ran out of medicines. He started hi... Read More

24 days after flood, hunger grips three Rasuwa wards

Kathmandu, Sept. 19 -- It has been 24 days since Tashi Wangden, husband of Jandra Tamang from ward 2 of Amachhodingmo Rural Municipality in Rasuwa district, went missing in the devastating Bhotekoshi ... Read More

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