Malnutrition in children serious health challenge in several Karnali districts
Poverty, food shortage and lack of awareness behind existing malnutrition crisis, say experts.
Poverty, food shortage and lack of awareness behind existing malnutrition crisis, say experts.
Campaign inspires girls and women to abandon period sheds.
Survivors displaced for over six months have demanded relocation to safer areas but their demands have remained unaddressed.
The $1 billion plant is expected to transform the economy of the impoverished region by creating jobs and business.
There is a campaign underway to replace the thatched roofs with galvanised zinc sheets but with lack of sufficient budget the effort is moving at a snail’s pace, local representatives say.
Drought during the flowering period and hailstorm during the fruit-bearing period affected output, farmers say.
Two persons who were rescued from the incident site have been taken to Jumla-based Karnali Academy of Health Sciences for treatment.
Six people died after a landslide buried a house in Kalikot, while a 54-year-old man died in the Makwanpur landslide.
Eighteen people have been killed in various landslides in the district this week alone.
Authorities say continuous rainfall has hampered the search and rescue operation.
Among the 39 passengers, three dead one still missing.
Following an altercation with the passengers, the driver exited the vehicle which had its engine running, causing the accident, police said.
Most of the facilities in Kalikot do not meet the basic requirements set by the federal government.
The local units do not have a concrete plan yet on how to tackle the mass unemployment that the crisis has wrought.
Palata Rural Municipality’s disaster management committee has urged the people to self-isolate themselves in their homes and report to the health post if they show any symptoms of Covid-19.