Chance for Nepal’s new government to fulfil its campaign promise to improve healthcare access
Nepal's healthcare community is striving to reach the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on high-risk districts
Behind Nepal’s dramatic progress in reducing the maternal mortality ratio, there are heroic stories like this
Faced with USAID cuts, maternal health needs systemic change to meet United Nations targets
Focus on proven solutions like investing in prenatal nutrition, rather than on flashy, multisectoral schemes with no immediate payoff
Two decades after Maoists promised prosperity, this Dalit village in Nepal has been forgotten
How Nepal can revive stalled progress in improving maternal and child health
It was being poor that cost Sharmila her life, not winter cold after the Jajarkot earthquake
An ambitious program launched in the mid-2000s to protect women who give birth at home faces opposition, neglect and shortages
Rural Nepali mothers need more nurses like Anju Chaudhary
More women use health facilities to be as healthy as possible before giving birth and for safe delivery
Nurses Puspa Pandhak and Sumnima Khapung delivering the baby inside a jeep late at night on 3 March, after concluding that they could not reach…
Photos: UNICEF NEPALDespite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the…
Photo: HIMALMEDIAA white-coated nurse holding a blue and white, half-litre bag of milk stands in front of a small group of mothers seated near…
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, urging him to uphold the rights of Nepali citizens…
Dedicated nurse returns to the village of her birth to run a birthing centre, and save lives during the pandemic
Social entrepreneur fulfils promise to his mother to improve maternal care in rural Nepal
Photo: OM ASTHA RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe world recorded an all-time low under-five deaths in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in…
Photo: MARTY LOGANIt should not be surprising that Nepal’s first COVID-19 death was a new mother. What was surprising was to hear Prime Minister…
The overall trend in neo-natal deaths is positive, but the poorest families will lag behind further as inequality grows
Lack of access to and awareness of family planning, the prevalence of unhealthy superstitions and taboos, and the desire to produce a son…
Nepali students on their way to the quarantine centre in Bhaktapur after landing in Kathmandu Airport on Sunday morning. Photo: RSSThe global…
25-year-old Batu Chadara, from Dandabasa village, Pandusen was nine months pregnant and was going to return a rooster she had borrowed. Photos:…
https://youtu.be/FmieAvLuWBoFederalism was supposed to bring the government closer to the people, decentralise medical care and improve public…
