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Press articles (used media abbreviations)

Docs protest govt ‘apathy’ towards their demands; warn of stern agitation (nn 02/09/2007), Doctors withdraw protest programmes (nn 05/09/2007)

Drunken doc misbehaves with patients, by Kamal Panthi (kp 01/07/2007)

Insurance policy for doctors (kp 28/06/2007)

No docs in Dhankuta (kp 27/06/2007)

Bir Hospital docs strike, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 13/06/2007), Bir Hospital Strike: Docs’ stir adds to patients’ woes, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 14/06/2007), Bir Hospital doctors back to work (samn 14/06/2007)

'Unqualified' docs at zonal hospital (kp 07/06/2007)

Junior docs refuse to work in remote areas, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 05/06/2007)

Doctors’ strike hits patients hard (samn 24/05/2007)

Sunsari hit by shortage of docs (samn 19/05/2007)

Doctors call for professional sincerity (samn 25/04/2007)

Doctors launch protest demanding Dr. Singh's release (nn 09/04/2007), 1-hour OPD shutdown today (samn 10/04/2007), Pharmacists, NMA continue protests (kp 11/04/2007), Dr. Singh returns to his home after ten-day ordeal (nn 12/04/2007), 'Locals behind my kidnapping' (kp 13/04/2007)

Doctors warn of protest (kp 22/02/2007)

Govt recruiting temporary docs for rural areas, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 05/01/2007)

Doctors halt medical services from today (nn 27/12/2006), Patient dies while docs clash with service seekers, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 27/12/2006), Doc-patient row (kp 27/12/2006), Nepal doctors strike in hospitals (BBC News 27/12/2006), Health strike continues, by Sangeeta Rijal (kp 28/12/2006), Doctors end strike (nn 28/12/2006)

Doctors abscent at health institutions, by Kamal Panthi (kp 24/12/2006)

Doctors stage nationwide protest (samn 08/12/2006)

Who should ensure quality of doctors?, by Nirmal Kandel (kp 29/11/2006)

Stirring students blame doc for lecturer’s death (kp 08/11/2006)

No doctor in Kalikot: Woman dies in labor, by Tularam Pandey (kp 08/11/2006)

Call to retain doctors in remote areas (samn 28/10/2006)

65 of 76 heart specialists in capital (kp 25/09/2006)

Don't doctors deserve a fair trial?, by Saroj Dhakal (kp 29/08/2006)

A perfect doctor, by Nikita Nepal (kp 05/08/2006)

Deification of doctors, by Padma Devkota (kp 30/07/2006)

Postgraduate medical education, by A K Sharma (kp 23/07/2006)

Struggling doctors, by Sushma Lamichhane (kp 04/07/2006)

No doctor in entire Bardiya district, by Kamal Panthi (kp 13/06/2006)

China medical graduates allege injustice (kp 15/01/2006)

Medical brain drain, by Nitya Nanda Timsina (kp 07/01/2006)

Anesthetist scholarship quota to increase (kp 27/01/2005)

Job becomes dream for young docs, by Nitya Nanda Timsina (kp 07/12/2004), Doc-drain looms large thanks to low pay By Nitya Nanda Timsina (kp 08/12/2004), Doctors’ dilemma (kp 09/12/2004)

Inadequate eye doctors causing more blindness, by Bhakta Bahadur Thapa (rn 14/10/2004), Eye Care Vision (rn 15/10/2004)

Gaur facing shortage of doctors (rn 04/08/2004)

No docs for patients (ht 26/04/2004)

Doctors keep busy at clinics at cost of hospital, by Binod Bhandari (kp 21/03/2004)

Mockery of the Hippocratic Oath, by Kumar Bahadur Bhatta (People's Review, 06/11/2003)

Absence of doctors affect cancer patients (Kathmandu Post, 28/09/2003)

Docs give rural postings the slip, by Damakant Jayshi (Kathmandu Post, 22/08/2003)

Doctors find job hunting Herculean task, by Damakant Jayshi (Kathmandu Post, 21/08/2003)

Seven doctors’ posts vacant at Mechi Zonal Hospital (Space Time Today, 31/12/2002)

Should doctors be made answerable?, by P Gopakumar (Space Time Today, 24/10/2002)

Salyan Hospital in short of adequate doctors (Kathmandu Post, 16/05/2002)

Nepal’s first women surgeons say where there’s a will, the way will follow, by Seema A. Adhikari (Kathmandu Post, 12/04/2002)

People of Myagdi deprived of health service (Kathmandu Post, 06/04/2002)

No doctor in Rukum for last one year (Kathmandu Post, 20/03/2002)

Quacks, chemists act doctors (Rising Nepal, 04/03/2002)

Temporary doctors to fill vacant posts, by Pragya Ghimire (Kathmandu Post, 12/01/2002)

200 out of 240 dentists based in Kathmandu Valley, by Tashi Dolma Thinley (Kathmandu Post, 16/09/2001)

Nepal producing 400 docs every year: Tamrakar (Rising Nepal, 02/05/2001)

Quacks Concerns, by Akshay Sharma (Spotlight, 15/09/2000)

Too few dentists for too many patients (Rising Nepal, 30/08/2000)

Doctors should be honest to patients and profession (People's Review, 13/07/2000), interview with Buddhi Bahadur Thapa

Patients suffer doctors’ shortage in hospital (Kathmandu Post, 12/07/2000)

Ghate Vaidya: when doctors fail (Sunday Despatch, 30 January 2000)

Background

Society of Surgeons of Nepal