Kathmandu, Feb. 17 -- Nepal on Sunday received an initial shipment of 35 essential childhood cancer medicines, thanks to the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines, which provided essential medicines free of cost that will ultimately help in treating children suffering from cancer.

The platform is a partnership between the World Health Organisation and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital that aims to provide quality-assured childhood cancer medicines to low- and middle-income countries like Nepal.

Nepal became a focus country of the WHO Global Initiative of Childhood Cancer (GICC) in 2020. In 2022, the country was selected as one of the six countries (only one from WHO South-East Asia Region) to participate in the Gl...