The UML-led government had decided to build five 15-bed hospitals in all 753 local units, but the current government has decided to shelve the plan citing funds crunch.

Now health officials might need to revise their plans as they had based their calculations on the Rs41 billion limit.

Over 95,000 people above one year from wards 11,12 and 13 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City will be administered two doses of the oral cholera vaccine.

Medical Commission says some 1,000 students left the country for MBBS and MD/MS programmes this fiscal.

Hospitals are currently sending samples to India for testing, resulting in long waits for the reports.

Studies show 34 percent of adult women aged between 15 and 49 years, and 43 percent of children between six months to 59 months suffer from anaemia in Nepal.

Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent Covid vaccine is set to arrive after three weeks, according to officials.

Doctors at major hospitals, however, say the plan, which will help reduce hospitals’ patient overload, is viable.

Nepal is committed to eliminating the disease by 2026.

There are no psychologists serving under health ministry and no agency to monitor the quality of services they provide.

At least four percent of Nepali children aged 12 to 23 months have not received any of the regular vaccines.

The health ministry says 520 dengue cases have been reported since January this year.

In Thalara Rural Municipality alone, over 200 women suffer from the condition.

The pandemic’s ‘global health emergency’ status may be over, but vulnerable groups in Nepal continue to be at risk.

National Immunisation Advisory Committee also recommends the health ministry to inoculate children between 5 and 11.

Seventeen pregnant women, mostly between the ages of 15-25 years, lost their lives in the last fiscal year.

In February 2021 the Nepal Medical Association had almost doubled the fees.

Antenatal and postnatal care, institutional delivery, verbal autopsy of maternal deaths, and training will be impacted.

Nine persons have died from Covid-related complications since April 11.

All 11 wards of Galkot Municipality now have health centres qualifying the local unit to declare itself child-friendly.