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

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.

Nepal Medical Council officials suspect medical colleges present foreign doctors only during inspections to secure approval for more MBBS seats.

Contaminated water, inadequate toilets and rotting animal carcasses are raising the risk of water- and vector-borne diseases.

The costs include medical tests, transportation, food, accommodation, and income lost due to illness.

Winter weddings and migrant workers returning home for the festivals help drive the annual rise in deliveries, say doctors.

More than half of drinking water samples from public schools and offices in three Lalitpur local units tested positive for faecal coliform and E coli.

MBBS enrolment by foreign students has risen by 35 percent in three years, yet 80 percent undergraduate seats reserved for them went unfilled last year.

Anti-snake venom is running out during peak snakebite season, while shortages of iron and folic acid, as well as anti-rabies and JE vaccines, are putting vulnerable patients at risk.

Six deaths were reported in Koshi province, two in Madhesh and one in Lumbini in less than a month.

More than 40 livestock and other domestic animals have died from the disease, leading experts to inspect affected settlements and begin vaccinating animals.

Additional doctors and nurses, better neonatal care, and wider use of mothers’ milk helped reduce deaths from eight to 2.5 per 1,000 live births.

A new study warns that the halt could lead to delayed diagnoses, treatment interruptions and preventable deaths.

MBBS student Dilli Harijan has also begun a hunger strike demanding parity in internship stipends between private and government medical college students.

As many as 53 people have died, and 716 others have been injured from venomous snakebites since May 14.

New study says Nepal reduced adolescent pregnancy and childbirth by 35 percent over the past two decades and outpaced many low- and lower middle income countries, including India.

Since demand is excessively high and collection low, Human milk bank has been prioritising the infants with low weights and those critically ill for service.

Decades of government failure to expand the health workforce have left doctors overworked, patients underserved, and assaults on health workers on the rise.

Hundreds of thousands of ailing people suffered due to a nationwide strike of doctors protesting against physical assaults on them. Emergency wards were overwhelmed.