Kathmandu Metropolis provides 1,800 vials of anti-rabies vaccine to Sukraraj Hospital

Kathmandu, June 28 -- The Health Department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has provided 1,800 vials of anti-rabies vaccine to the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital after the ... Read More

DDA seizes suspected counterfeit asthma medicine in nationwide crackdown

Kathmandu, June 26 -- In a major crackdown on illicit and counterfeit drugs being sold in Nepal under the name of a leading Indian pharmaceutical company, the Department of Drug Administration has sei... Read More

Three in four maternal deaths in Nepal occur in health facilities or in transit

Kathmandu, June 24 -- year-old woman carrying twins delivered her first child through normal delivery at the Karnali Provincial Hospital in Surkhet on Tuesday night. Moments later, her condition deter... Read More

Kathmandu Valley battles bird flu outbreaks

Kathmandu, June 22 -- The Department of Livestock Services on Monday deployed four separate rapid response teams of veterinary technicians to cull chickens and ducks, in firms hit by avian influenza v... Read More

Weeks after dog bite, man dies of rabies

Kathmandu, June 21 -- year-old man from Chandragiri Municipality who was admitted to Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital on Friday, succumbed to rabies infection on Saturday. Doctors tr... Read More

Madhesh leads in wasting, Karnali in stunting

Kathmandu, June 18 -- Nutrition conditions have deteriorated sharply in Nepal, as more than 200,000 children under five years of age are suffering from acute malnutrition, a recent study carried out b... Read More

Nepal cancer patients fight for survival as chemotherapy drugs are nowhere to be found

Kathmandu, June 17 -- Janak Khatiwada, a resident of Galchhi Rural Municipality-3, in Dhading reached various places of Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, and Kathmandu on Tuesday seeking a single dose of cisplatin... Read More

Three-quarters of newborn care facilities in Nepal lack critical medicines

Kathmandu, June 15 -- Nearly 75 percent of health facilities providing special newborn care services even lack medicines required for serious complications, according to a latest assessment by the Min... Read More

Monsoon threatens dengue surge as disease is already widespread across Nepal

Kathmandu, June 15 -- The monsoon has yet to set in, but Nepal has already recorded over 900 dengue infections this year. The mosquito-borne disease has been reported in 68 of the country's 77 distric... Read More

Met Office predicts monsoon arrival in Nepal within a few days

Kathmandu, June 12 -- Among the 235 families in Lidi village in Ward-2 of Jugal Rural Municipality, which was struck by a landslide in August 2020, only 32 have received the third tranche of reconstru... Read More

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