Working models for public-private partnership can fill the gap left by government in delivering universal health care
Nepal is lagging behind in meeting 2030 targets on eliminating hunger and reducing inequality
Hospitals across Nepal need to urgently upgrade their ERs to prepare for disasters and for urgent treatment
This is the 16th instalment of Diaspora Diaries, a regular series in Nepali Times with stories of Nepalis living and working abroad. I grew up…
Monkeypox cases are increasing worldwide and now with India seeing more infections, public health experts have warned that Nepal needs to be…
Bhavana with her young son. Photo: RITA ALE MAGARIt was a night that Rita Ale Magar says she will never forget. Bhavana, 17, from remote Dumre…
Belamati Nepali of West Rukum was diagnosed with intestinal cancer and underwent surgery in Lalitpur. Her husband Khadke sold the family…
Charikot Hospital. Photo: NYAYA HEALTH NEPALNepal’s medical industrial complex has modernised healthcare in the country, but it has also pushed…
Nepal’s health insurance program is due for urgent reform, or it risks being obsolete
PHOTO: SONIA AWALEIt had been three months into Sonam’s marriage that a slight trembling in her hand started. At first, she blamed it on the…
Tuberculosis kills many more Nepalis than Covid-19, but prevention, early diagnosis and treatment will save lives
Nepal's first female facial plastic surgeon demystifies the beauty procedure and recommends caution
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJ/HIMALMEDIAThe Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAfter watching the Netflix drama Bombay Begums recently, I was encouraged to see that mainstream cinema has started giving…
Women get body-shamed no matter how much they weigh, should not let others deter from healthy living
N cell Axiata Ltd. has been awarded WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards 2021 and ASOCIO Awards 2021 for its telemedicine and health informatics…
Newly constructed public toilet in Patan Dhoka is being inagurated on 19 November, World Toilet Day. Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe tactile pavement…
South-East Asia has achieved the fastest rate of decline in tobacco use among any other region in the world in 20 years, sustaining tobacco…
Nepal’s Sangya Malla has been announced Woman Police Officer of the Year 2021 by the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. Malla is…
Photo: CREATIVE COMMONSNearly two years after the global Covid-19 pandemic began, there has been a revival of traditional Ayurveda medicines…
The newly developed ayurvedic 'centre of excellence' is nestled beneath the forests of Nagarjun, just half an hour from Kathmandu. The centre is…
Illustration: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe cause of prolonged political paralysis in Nepal is cronyism, and the only way to uproot it is by tackling…
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba waits for his turn at a J&J vaccination centre in Kathmandu. Photo: PMODuring his address to Parliament on 18…
