Department of Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine says outdoor gyms will help fight non-communicable diseases.

Health authorities in Kathmandu Valley are preparing to launch a campaign to administer second Covid booster shots later this month.

People from priority groups and those aged above 55 will be administered the vaccine on March 22-24 in Kathmandu.

Prime minister promises free cure for cervical and breast cancers across country.

Ongoing drive against the disease will last till March 14.

Non-communicable diseases, which would earlier be diagnosed mostly among 60-70-year-olds, are now being seen in youths as young as 25. Doctors warn the diseases could lead to a public health crisis.

Upon their appointment, health ministers promise big but without ensuring budget to fulfil them, say health ministry officials.

As health workers refused to give shelf life-extended jabs to children aged 5 to 11, many are still deprived of shots.

Officials say smuggling of unauthorised medicines from India has emerged as a threat.

Human papillomavirus causes cervical cancer, a major cause of death among women.

More than 90 maternal deaths have been reported across the country in seven months.

Hundreds of youths leaving the country seek booster doses every day. Officials say Covid jabs are being given from seven health centres in Kathmandu.

Health ministry to send psychiatrists to 14 district hospitals every month.

The campaign against elephantiasis or lymphatic filariasis will continue over the next two weeks.

Around 140,000 Nepali women give birth at home, around 210,000 do not make postnatal visits and 45,000 don’t receive antenatal care, report says.

All health workers, pregnant women, those having compromised immunity and people suffering from chronic diseases are also listed for Pfizer’s bivalent Covid vaccine in the first phase.

An avian flu outbreak at a Lalitpur-based government farm around two weeks ago has been confirmed to have spread to at least six local units in the Valley.

The health ministry has asked the provincial health agencies to demand vaccine doses to be administered as booster and second booster shots.

Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite that most often causes severe and life-threatening malaria, is being found more commonly, officials say. Twenty-three cases of malaria have been reported in various districts since the start of 2023.

The strike was called off at 11am Sunday, but services were affected throughout the day.