Five of 15 drinking water sources in flood-hit Bidur contaminated with E. coli

Nepal, Sept. 4 -- Five of 15 drinking water samples collected from various sources in flood-hit Bidur Municipality in Nuwakot district have been found contaminated with E. coli. "E. coli has been fou... Read More

Nepal flood survivors lack space even to mourn their dead

Kathmandu, Sept. 3 -- Families of people who went missing in the Bhotekoshi floods have begun performing the funeral rites of their loved ones using effigies made of kusha grass, as they did not recei... Read More

Bhotekoshi flood survivors face new battle against illness

Nuwakot, Aug. 31 -- For survivors who escaped the Bhotekoshi flood with their lives, the crisis is far from over. Roads remain cut off, health services have been disrupted, and essential medicines are... Read More

Flood survivors face a second crisis as medicines, water run short

Nuwakot, Aug. 29 -- For Rekha Devi Gosain, surviving the flood was only the first ordeal. The Trishuli Bazaar resident lives with diabetes, high blood pressure and thyroid disease, conditions that re... Read More

When an Entire Village and Bazaar in Nepal Disappeared in an Instant

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- I was on my way to the Kantipur Publications office in Kathmandu on Wednesday morning when my wife called. "There's been a flood in the Trishuli," she said. "Something's happened... Read More

I watched my village disappear in an instant

Nuwakot, Aug. 27 -- I was on my way to the Kantipur Publications office in Kathmandu on Wednesday morning when my wife called. "There's been a flood in the Trishuli," she said. "Something's happened ... Read More

Flood leaves Nuwakot villages devastated, families searching for loved ones

Kathmandu, Aug. 26 -- The scale of destruction in flood-hit Nuwakot has left residents struggling to comprehend what happened, with homes swept away, families separated, and many people still missing.... Read More

Cancer drugs are not available at state-run hospitals. Elsewhere, they are sold at steep prices

Kathmandu, Aug. 24 -- Cancer patients are paying exorbitant prices for platinum-based chemotherapy medicines at private pharmacies because the drugs are not available at pharmacies in state-run health... Read More

Six JE deaths in 10 cases put Jhapa at centre of vaccination push

Kathmandu, Aug. 23 -- Japanese encephalitis has killed six of the 10 people infected in Jhapa since the current outbreak began in the second week of July. The 60 percent case-fatility rate, the highes... Read More

A single shot can prevent JE, but Nepal's vaccination programme leaves adults out

Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- Sayal Rai was just 12 years old when he contracted Japanese encephalitis. Now 14, he remains in a permanent vegetative state and has been on ventilator support ever since, first ... Read More

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