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Another baby's life is saved in rural Nepal

Puspa Pandhak was just finishing her duty at a rural hospital in Tehrathum district last week when a 19-year-old woman was brought...

Childless by choice

To have a baby or not is a personal decision, or that of a couple, the third party doesn’t have a say in it

Anjana Rajbhandary

Saving Nepali mothers on Mother’s Day

Dedicated nurse returns to the village of her birth to run a birthing centre, and save lives during the pandemic

“What can be more fulfilling than saving lives?”

Social entrepreneur fulfils promise to his mother to improve maternal care in rural Nepal

3 Nepali mothers still die daily at childbirth

It should not be surprising that Nepal’s first COVID-19 death was a new mother. What was surprising was to hear Prime Minister K P...

Miracle drug to reduce maternal deaths

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is a game-changer drug in the treatment of post-partum haemorrhage (PPH), the main cause of death in women immediately...

When panic goes viral

The global public health crisis caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus has  hospitalised tens of thousands and killed hundreds of people, wrecked...

Sonia Awale

Federalism leaves Nepal’s medical sector ailing

https://youtu.be/FmieAvLuWBoFederalism was supposed to bring the government closer to the people, decentralise medical care and improve public health at the grassroots. But...

POOR HEALTH MAKES NEPALIS POORER

There used to be a time when the main public health threat in Nepal was from infectious diseases like malaria, encephalitis, TB...

Implant service providers take contraception to Nepal's poor

Two nurses visiting distant Maharudra Health Post in Baitadi had packed up, said goodbye to staff and started down the road when...