healthcare

In a healthy state

Every year, half a million Nepalis fall below the poverty line paying for expensive medical care. Another three million face financial burden,...

Sonia Awale

Either too little, or too much iodine

Goitre was once so endemic in Nepal that it was considered a sign of beauty. Entire villages across northern Nepal that relied...

Sonia Awale

Born by the roadside in Nepal

Nothing could be more symbolic of the misplaced priorities of all three tiers of government in Nepal than the sight of women...

New cure for stroke, but prevention is key

* A 32-year-old female patient was suddenly unable to move one side of her body. She was rushed to Upendra Devkota Memorial National Institute...

Sonia Awale

Power to the periphery

Bal Bir Biswakarma from the village of Lulang at the lap of Mt Dhaulagiri in Central Nepal is a 68-year-old subsistence farmer, descendants...

Sonia Awale

3rd Covid wave infects Nepal’s frontliners

During the devastating second wave last year, hundreds of people were dying every day. Hospitals had run out of ICU beds and oxygen...

Sonia Awale

Donated ventilators gather dust in Nepal

When the second wave of the Delta variant ravaged Nepal in April-May this year, hospitals ran out of oxygen and ICU beds. The international community...

The good doctor

I had an appointment with Rishi Ram Koirala the day before he suffered his fatal heart attack. Last week Nepal has lost...

Lisa Choegyal

Nepal must work on human rights

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, urging him to uphold the rights...

Digital path to social buffers in Nepal

Worldwide, the impact of Covid-19 underscores the need for more social security buffers built upon the access to four basic services: affordable...

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