Newborn data of the Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital shows a wide gap between the number of boys and girls.

Doctors say an excessive amount of heavy metals—arsenic, lead, and mercury—can affect a patient’s kidney, liver, skin, and blood circulation directly and can also lead to death.

National Tuberculosis Centre aims to provide service in all 77 districts within the next two years.

The programme is aimed to reduce the burden of the major risk factors for non-communicable diseases.

The immunisation drive is supposed to cover over three million children.

Health ministry directs local and provincial health facilities to keep emergency wards open.

Officials say they are not monitoring the health of goats, buffaloes and pigs, or inspecting butcher shops in the metropolis this year.

The hospital is accused of putting a newborn through an ordeal of multiple surgeries and high-dose medication.

The head of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division speaks about the recent dengue outbreak and the division’s inability to function as required.

Sixty-six percent of all deaths in Nepal are caused by non-communicable diseases, a 2017 study found.

Officials say additional posts are being created for those who have political connections.

While unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles are the main culprits, psychosocial and behavioural factors are also associated with cardiovascular diseases.

The proposal aims to reduce the death rate of Nepali migrant workers.

Health facilities face shortage of medicines needed for high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, heart and kidney ailments, among others.

Women in labour pain forced to go to big cities, at times putting their and babies lives at risk.