In Nuwakot, locals walk for five to six hours to reach the tuin, an improvised cable crossing, then wait for another four to five hours to cross.

Food is running out in villages cut off after the Bhotekoshi flood swept away bridges.

Immunisation experts urge authorities to vaccinate everyone above 30, citing a shift in the age group at risk and a high risk of fatality among unvaccinated people.

Families of those swept away by the August 26 flood are performing funeral rites without bodies. But they cannot secure death certificates or claim relief, compensation, insurance and other entitlements.

With homes destroyed, families shattered and winter approaching, thousands of displaced people remain caught between unsafe villages and temporary shelters.

More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.

A woman giving birth on a pavement outside a government hospital after her husband could not afford Rs3,200 in tests exposes the gap between Nepal’s free maternity care and access to emergency healthcare.

With all roads and bridges washed away by the catastrophic August 26 floods, the village has been effectively cut off from the outside world.

Damaged roads have made hospitals difficult to reach for the affected, including pregnant women.

Residents of Aamachhodingmo Rural Municipality who have lost family members look up for help when they hear a helicopter fly. Their prayers mostly go unanswered.

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.