Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (November 3, 2019).
Doctors advise prime minister to rest more and work less
Two days after he was discharged from the hospital, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday briefed ruling party leaders on his health condition.
At Saturday’s Secretariat meeting, according to leaders, the prime minister said he may need to undergo dialysis as many as three times a week.
“Doctors will suggest if I need another kidney transplant after studying the medical reports,” a Nepal Communist Party leader who attended the meeting quoted Oli as telling the meeting, requesting anonymity.
Non-government organisations concerned over a new law to regulate them
A Cabinet decision to authorise the Ministry of Home Affairs to prepare a draft of a new law to regulate and supervise social organisations has raised serious concerns among the non-governmental organisations who allege that the move is against the government’s own Work Division Regulations.
As per the government’s Work Division Regulation, the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens is the designated agency to draft policies, laws, standards and regulations for non-government organisations.
Occupy Tundikhel hopes to reclaim the public spaces that are being encroached upon
Tundikhel, described by many as the ‘lungs of Kathmandu’, was once a wide-open expanse in the heart of the city. This public park once spanned nearly four kilometres, all the way from Rani Pokhari to Dashrath Stadium. But ever since the Rana era, successive governments have consistently chipped away at this prime land, cordoning off portions for private parks, roads, and for the exclusive use of the Nepal Army. Now, Tundikhel is barely half its original size, hemmed in on all sides.
Locals and activists have long protested this encroachment on an open space that has been so vital to the city, not just for recreation and leisure but also for relief and as staging ground during the earthquakes that have periodically struck Kathmandu. But the appropriation of public land has continued unabated.
The learning culture has to improve for volleyball to grow in the country: Lesley de Jonge
Lesley de Jonge has been reappointed as the head coach of Nepal’s men's senior volleyball team for the South Asian Games, which is set to be hosted from December 1 to 10 in Kathmandu and Pokhara. He had previously coached Nepal during the 2018 Asian Games held in Indonesia last year. The 29-year-old coach has years of managerial and coaching experiences in the Netherland’s top volleyball division, and has spent a lot of time improving his coaching knowledge in Turkey, where he collaborated with the famous Italian expert Giovanni Guidetti.
The Post's Prarambha Dahal had a conversation with de Jonge to talk about his reappointment, Nepal’s strategy for the Games, and the country’s focus on volleyball—its national sport.
Dengue patients still on the rise in Birgunj Metropolitan City
Doctors of Narayani Hospital in Birgunj said that the number of patients suffering from dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, is still rising in Birgunj Metropolitan City—with the hospital seeing fresh patients every day. However, officials at the metropolis claim that the disease is under control.
Dr JP Jaisawal of Narayani Hospital said that he has already treated around 120 dengue patients in the last 40 days. According to him, the hospital received six dengue patients on Thursday alone. He said, “A majority of them were from Gahawatol in Birgunj Metropolis.”
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