Officials say they have proposed allocating a budget at all 753 local units to screen for diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and body mass index.

Officials have found some health facilities to be charging patients despite pays by government and insurance board.

Fear of CIAA scrutiny deters officials from purchasing essential medicines and commodities at a higher price. Officials say that the cost of most medicines and commodities has risen internationally due to the rise in the US dollar price.

As many as 14 children under five years of age succumbed to diarrhoea in the fiscal year 2080-81, up from four the previous fiscal year.

At least four percent children under two years of age have received no vaccines. Experts stress targeted plans to close the gap and avert new outbreaks.

Cuts may jeopardise major programmes on maternal and child health, immunisation, nutrition, HIV, TB, mental health, and epidemic control, among others.

All three districts of the Kathmandu Valley—Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur—report dengue infections. Dengue-transmitting mosquitoes breed in clean water.

The plan includes private consultation rooms, trained psychiatrists and nurses, and availability of medication at the hospital itself.

Meteorological Forecasting Division, which has issued a heat wave warning in many Tarai districts, said this is just the start and asked people to take precautions.

As federal, provincial government’s pass the buck, 34 percent of women and 43 percent of children in Nepal are anaemic.

The consignment includes vaccines worth $2 million to support Nepal’s healthcare system.

Pre-exposure medications and outreach efforts for sex workers, drug users, and vulnerable groups have been stalled.

Only Kirtipur Hospital received the fund and has already spent it. Poor patients at other hospitals are still footing the bill.

Eighty percent of deaths are caused by delayed treatment. Nepal aims to reduce present snakebite deaths by 50 percent within 2030.

It is estimated that regular supplementation campaigns have reduced deaths among children under five by 23 percent.

The environment department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has fined three private hospitals for mixing hospital waste with household garbage.

The World Health Organisation will provide financial and technical support for the study, officials say.

Authorities have missed the target multiple times. In 2024, the number of malaria infections was 1,043, nearly double that of 2023.

Officials say Rs380 million is needed to reimburse hospitals, and Rs600 million to continue the programme in this fiscal.

Amid unprecedented aid cuts by the US, the UN health body stresses the need for sustained investment to protect the progress.