Officials mull cholera vaccination for around 100,000 vulnerable people and measles vaccine for over 75,000 children.

Families perform funeral rites using effigies, mourners struggle to find cooking gas.

After years of unfulfilled government promises to move them to safe ground, dozens of quake-affected families in Rasuwa and Nuwakot have now been swept away by the catastrophic Bhotekoshi flood.

From a Rasuwa holding centre, survivors recount desperate escapes, relatives swept away and the loss of homes, villages and entire families in the Bhotekoshi disaster.

14-year-old Akash Tamang says he survived the floods, but his younger brother and sister are missing. 17,000 children have been directly affected by floods in Bhotekoshi and Trishuli corridors, says UNICEF.

Medicines are running short, health services remain disrupted, and crowded shelters are raising fears of disease outbreaks among displaced families.

Displaced patients miss essential drugs while hospitals struggle with dwindling supplies, no fuel and worsening sanitation as insecurity spreads around shelters.

Prem Bahadur and Maiya Tamang have turned their lone hillside home into a shelter, feeding and housing more than 200 people since the disaster despite relying mainly on small government allowances.

As the search for bodies drags on, survivors in the river settlements are searching for loved ones trapped beneath collapsed homes, and waiting for the government to arrive.

With hundreds still unaccounted for after the floods, relatives wait anxiously for news as rescue teams race to reach those stranded and recover the missing.

In the devastating floods that severed an entire district from the rest of Nepal, one The Kathmandu Post journalist witnessed his childhood village disappear — through fragments of video, and phone calls that stopped connecting.

Homes and bridges have been swept away, while some residents have watched helplessly as family members were carried away by the flood, and many others remain missing.

A dispute over government price caps has left hospitals without vital chemotherapy drugs, but the medicines continue to circulate in the market.

Experts urge nationwide vaccination to protect vulnerable populations as the outbreak has gripped all provinces.

Sayal Rai has spent more than two years on a ventilator after JE left him severely disabled. The disease has killed at least 21 people across Nepal over the past six weeks.