Kathmandu, Feb. 3 -- day training for medical officers serving in all district hospitals across the country has been halted indefinitely. These doctors were supposed to get training to save neonates either born in hospitals where they work or brought in for treatment.

Similarly, hundreds of nurses serving in district hospitals who were all set to get a 15-day neonatal care training in the third trimester of the ongoing fiscal year will not receive any training this year.

Health authorities had also planned a four-day orientation for these doctors and nurses on neonatal deaths and measures needed to prevent it. However, all these programmes have been suspended indefinitely for the same reason-the new Donald Trump administration's abrupt ...