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Press articles (used media abbreviations)

Nurses threaten protest (kp 13/05/2008)

Where are the nurses? by Marianne Heredge (kp 11/05/2008)

Temporary health workers announce protest (nn 26/04/2008)

Health workers’ strike disrupts services (kp 13/12/2007)

Nepal’s real heroines: Female community health volunteers bring medical care to the weak and sick in remote areas, by Naresh newar (nt 19/10/2007)

District lacks health workers, by Biplav Maharjan (kp 02/08/2007)

BPKIHS nurses mount sit-in (kp 09/07/2007)

Team of health personnel goes missing (samn 20/06/2007), Police rescues health official abducted by YCL (nn 21/06/2007)

Say ‘thank you’, by Chandni Karmacharya (kp 27/05/2007)

Nurses flock abroad though badly needed here, by Anjali Subedi (kp 29/12/2006), Nurses on demand (kp 30/12/2006)

3 health workers fired for bunking off (kp 07/12/2006)

Fifty years of nursing education, by Laxmi S Thakur (kp 03/12/2006)

Junior health workers call-off their protest (nn 19/09/2006), Health workers call off strike, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 19/09/2006)

Health workers resume protest (kp 09/09/2006), Health workers’ stir costs life, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (kp 14/09/2006), Another death due to health strike, by Ramesh C Adhikari (kp 15/09/2006)

‘Govt forces nurses migration’ (kp 07/09/2006)

Nurses are facing new challenges, by Sanu Tuladhar (kp 20/08/2006)

Lack of health workers causing untimely deaths (kp 18/08/2006)

Nurses face tough time getting jobs in Nepal (People's Daily 18/07/2006)

Trained midwives can save 2,250 Nepali mothers a year, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 10/07/2006)

Popularity Of Nursing Profession In Nepal, by Roshana Karki (sp 12/08/2005)

Female Community Health Volunteers: Front Runners, by Keshab Poudel (sp 05/08/2005)

Quacks put precious lives in peril, by Nitya Nanda Timsina (kp 18/09/2004)

AHW held ‘guilty’ after man dies of snake bite (kp 22/05/2004)

With no health workers, peon treats patients (ht 24/04/2004)

Nurse scarcity impedes quality care, by Agya Poudyal & Shristi Shrestha (kp 29/01/2004)

Violence at work place and nurses’ role, by Jamuna Tamrakar Sayami  (Kathmandu Post, 25/05/2001)

Police man handle agitating nurses, by Pragya Ghimire (Kathmandu Post, 30/04/2001)

Bir Hospital nurses’ strike continues (Kathmandu Post, 29/04/2001); see also Striking nurses unrelenting Talks to end stir inconclusive (Rising Nepal, 29/04/2001)

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