Poison
Information Center established at TUTH (rep
07/12/2023)
Bir
Hospital Director Dr Paudel knocks on SC’s doors
(rep 06/12/2023)
TU
Staff Association Teaching Hospital Unit
Committee conducts peaceful protest (rep
04/12/2023)
KMC
approves new procedure to ensure 10 percent free
service at hospitals (rep 24/11/2023)
Doctors,
skilled health workers providing specialist
services in remote health post : Locals say the
arrival of doctors has saved them much time and
energy, by Biplab Maharjan (kp 21/11/2023)
All
services except emergency halted at Patan Hospital
(kh 07/11/2023)
Thapathali
maternity hospital plans to expand its birthing unit :
Doctors say women in labour prefer the presence of their
husbands or close relatives by their side, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 19/10/2023)
Bharatpur
Hospital overwhelmed by patient influx : The growing
number of patients has strained hospital resources,
resulting in neglect of sanitation and hygiene, by
Ramesh Paudel (kp 09/10/2023)
This
Banepa hospital conducts classes for children with
disabilities so their studies are not affected : Since
2014, the Banepa-based institution has taught at least
5,825 children while also treating them, by Jyoti
Shrestha (kp 08/10/2023)
A
hospital struggles with shortage of free medicines : For
over a week now, needy patients visiting the Salyan
District Hospital have been left to fend for themselves,
by Biplab Maharjan (kp 03/10/2023)
KMC
health workers continue street protests for second
consecutive day (kh 02/10/2023), Diagnostic
center’s operator assaulted in Kathmandu (kh
02/10/2023)
Talks
between govt and agitating doctors positive, doctors
withdraw protest programs (kh 30/09/2023), KMC
doctors assaulted within 24 hours of
govt-medical professionals agreement (rep
01/10/2023), Doctors
beaten up in KMC hospital, two arrested (kh
01/10/2023)
Stringent
law fails to stop assaults on doctors : Thousands of
patients suffered, as resident doctors shunned services
on Wednesday, by Arjun Poudel (kp 28/09/2023)
All
but emergency services shut at Pokhara hospitals
(rep 27/09/2023)
Health
institutions urged to keep notice board on penalty
against mistreatment of doctors, health workers (rep
27/09/2023)
Tension
runs high in Manipal Hospital after patient dies
(rep 26/09/2023)
Relief
for villagers as Salyan local unit operates health posts
seven days a week : All six health posts in the Kapurkot
Rural Municipality provide services even during public
holidays, including Saturdays, by Biplab Maharjan
(kp 21/09/2023)
Bhairahawa-based
Bhim Hospital struggling amid funds crunch : Doctor
shortage could force it to discontinue appendicitis and
hernia surgeries, officials say, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 16/09/2023)
Patient
attendants to get quarters at Sushil Koirala Cancer
Hospital (kh 16/09/23023)
Mass
resignation of doctors paralyzes Hetauda hospital
services (kh 15/09/2023), Four
persons involved in assaulting doctors arrested (rep
15/09/2023), NMA
suspends all non-emergency health services today (kh
17/09/2023), Thousands
of patients suffer due to doctors’ strike : Medical
professionals to resume duty after an agreement with the
government on Sunday evening, by Arjun Poudel (kp
18/09/2023)
Ani
Choying Drolma Foundation donates Rs 18mn (ht
12/09/2023)
Beni
Hospital construction in limbo, workers unpaid :
Construction work has been halted in protest against the
payment delays, by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp
11/09/2023)
‘Specialist
ward health clinic’ benefits needy people from
impoverished communities in Dhangadhi : The clinic has
provided services to over 135,000 patients so far,
officials say, by Arjun Shah (kp 10/09/2023)
Blood
transfusion center set up in Waling (kh 06/09/2023)
Paropakar
Maternity Hospital launches online ticketing (rn
06/09/2023)
PEN-Plus
project to be piloted in four more district hospitals :
The programme will focus on alleviating the burden of
non-communicable diseases, according to officials,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 05/09/2023)
Bayalpata
Hospital beset by financial woes : Established in 2008,
the Sanfebagar-based hospital provides specialist
service free of cost, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
03/09/2023)
All
beds in BPKMCH made free (kh 30/08/2023)
Hospital
in Gandaki lacks human resources to run dialysis center
(rep 29/08/2023)
Patient
dies after kidney removal following kidney stone surgery
: Police refuse to register complaint filed by victim’s
family against doctor (rep 28/08/2023)
Provide
10 percent of total beds free of cost to poor or else
face action: KMC tells hospitals (rep 23/08/2023) [The idea sounds good, but good
health service is expensive. The financing must then be
arranged in another way!]
Bharatpur
Hospital declares 400 beds free (kh 19/08/2023)
Hospitals
instructed to conduct fever clinic (kh 18/08/2023)
Karnali
Provincial Hospital is providing critical medical care :
It started kidney transplant services earlier this year.
Doctors report influx of patients, by Jyotee Katuwal
(kp 16/08/2023)
Patients
suffer due to lack of beds in Kanti Children's Hospital
: Treatment of up to three people on the same bed
(rep 06/08/2023)
Hospitals
in hills reel under lack of anti-snake venom serum and
manpower : Rising temperatures and pollution have led to
an increase in the number of snake encounters in
villages in the hilly areas, by Kumbharaj Rai and
Dambar Singh Rai (kp 03/08/2023)
Four
individuals arrested for operating illegal clinics in
Dhangadhi (kh 28/07/2023)
SC
orders Kanti Children’s Hospital to compensate Rs 3
million for medical negligence (kh 28/07/2023)
Bir
Hospital launches VIP, VVIP wards (rn 25/07/2023)
First
ever hospital for facial deformities to be established
(ht 24/07/2023)
BPKIHS
sets up separate dengue treatment facility on its
premises : A 30-bed ward came into operation on Sunday
to tackle the rising cases of dengue in Dharan and its
neighbouring areas, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
24/07/2023)
Bir
Hospital to operate OPD service at 8.00 am from July 17
(kh 09/07/2023), Bir
Hospital and Trauma Centre providing OPD services from 8
am (kh 17/07/2023)
100-bed
Provincial Ayurvedic Hospital to be constructed in
Shuklaphanta (rep 02/07/2023)
Dodhara
Chandani Basic Hospital launches C-section service : The
hospital was upgraded to a basic hospital from a primary
health centre in April, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
30/06/2023)
Over
2000 free beds to be made available to the needy
patients from Thursday : Health Minister Mohan Basnet
has asked all hospitals to provide 10 percent of beds to
the needy free of charge (nlt 28/06/2023), Govt
hospitals providing 2028 free beds to target groups from
tomorrow (rep 28/06/2023)
50-bed
hospital handed over (kh 27/06/2023)
Bir
Hospital’s 700 beds free of charge from Friday (kh
24/06/2023)
Protest
in Dharan against ‘umbrella law’ plan to integrate
health academies : The government move is regressive and
goes against the spirit of federalism, protesters say,
by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 18/06/2023)
NMA
demands security arrangements for health workers and
healthcare facilities (kh 17/06/2023), NMA
demands enhanced security in hospitals amid growing
cases of violence against health workers (rep
17/06/2023)
Nepal
Medical College temporarily suspends OPD service : The
hospital administration stated that all services, except
for emergencies, will remain closed until action is
taken against those involved in the act of vandalism
(nlt 14/06/2023)
Visitors
and staff in peril as landslide threatens health post :
Landslides that started two years ago have swept away
Tityang health post’s front yard, by Prakash Baral
(kp 13/06/2023)
Understaffed
Dadeldhura Hospital paralysed by political interference
: The hospital has been the battleground for political
parties lately, affecting its service delivery, officers
say, by DR Pant (kp 11/06/2023) [Party
politics is poison in Nepal in many ways!]
No
private hospital bed for poor patients : Hospitals run
by the private sector are blatantly ignoring the
mandatory 10 percent free bed allocation for the needy,
by Deepak Pariyar, Ramesh Kumar Paudel, Ghanashyam Gautam
& Binod Bhandari (kp 10/06/2023)
KMC
Mayor Balen warns of “closing” administrative services
of 68 health institutions not complying with necessary
obligations (kh 31/05/2023), Mayor
Balen submits list of 68 hospitals that do not provide
target beneficiaries free medical treatment to health
minister (rep 31/05/2023)
Work
on 400 basic hospitals in local units may not start next
fiscal year : The UML-led government had decided to
build five 15-bed hospitals in all 753 local units, but
the current government has decided to shelve the plan
citing funds crunch, by Arjun Poudel (kp 31/05/2023)
Kathmandu
Metropolis urge hospitals to provide details of free
medical services provided to target beneficiaries
(kh 21/05/2023)
An
aging health post is in desperate need of repairs : The
three-room structure that Lwangghalel Health Centre in
Saintighatta operates out of is on the verge of collapse,
by Deepak Pariyar (kp 20/05/2023)
OPD
in hospitals to run from 8 am to 8 pm (kh
20/05/2023), Running
OPD 12 hours a day ‘easier said than done’
Doctors at major hospitals, however, say the plan, which
will help reduce hospitals’ patient overload, is viable
(kp 22/05/2023)
Nepal’s
rural lifeline : One far-flung hospital shows that it is
possible to provide free quality medical care to
isolated communities in Nepal, by Sonia Awale (nt
19/05/2023)
Patients
in Sunsari District Hospital double, by Jay Krishna
Yadav (rn 04/05/2023)
Dhaulagiri
Hospital to be upgraded to provincial facility :
Hospital administration plans to operate 200 beds along
with state-of-the-art services. There is also a plan to
set up a trauma centre, by Prakash Baral (kp
22/04/2023)
Dialysis
patient dies after left alone following a fire at
hospital : The 65-year-old, who had suffered blood loss
during dialysis, was undergoing a transfusion when a
generator caught fire and hospital staff fled for their
lives, by Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 13/04/2023)
Bharatpur
Hospital to expand its services (rep 10/04/2023)
Over
500 benefit from health camp in Kavrepalanchok (kh
09/04/2023)
‘One
hospital per local unit’ projects facing delays in
Achham : Three years ago, the federal government had
announced plans to build one hospital each in all local
units, but the projects have yet to take off in Achham,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 07/04/2023)
Maternity
hospital needs proper care like a newborn, by
Sabitri Dhakal (ae 06/04/2023)
Bir
Hospital must change itself to deliver quality services,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ae 30/03/2023)
Civil
Service Hospital crowded like a fair, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ae 20/03/2023)
Jumla
becoming zonal hub for orthopaedic treatment : Karnali
Academy of Health Sciences caters to patients from
Jumla, Humla, Mugu, Kalikot and Dolpa and earning
ccolades for its orthopaedic services, by DB Budha
(kp 08/03/2023)
Bir
Hospital fires five nurses on charge of AWOL (rep
14/03/2023)
A
district hospital struggles with staff and fund
shortages : The 65-bed Madhyabindu District Hospital in
Nawalparasi East has positions for 31 health workers,
but has been making do with just 13, by Narayan
Sharma (kp 02/03/2023)
Federal
project left in limbo in Karnali districts : The federal
government in fiscal year 2019-20 had announced plans to
build one hospital each in all local units of Karnali
but the project has fallen flat, by Biplab Maharjan
(kp 28/02/2023) [One of the many
failures of the then Oli government, which continued
under his successors Deuba and Dahal!]
Provincial
police hospital set up in Belbari (kh 23/02/2023)
Dadeldhura
Hospital critically understaffed : Government apathy and
poor management have made the regional hospital unable
to cater to patients’ urgent needs, by DR Pant (kp
04/02/2023)
Services
at Dhaulagiri Hospital affected by lack of specialist
doctors : People from several surrounding districts have
been deprived of even basic maternity services at the
hospital as it has been without a gynaecologist for over
a month now, by Prakash Baral (kp 25/01/2023)
Bir
Hospital launches cath lab, Health Minister insists on
quality services (kh 19/01/2023)
Jajarkot
health posts suffer scarcity of medicines (kh
17/01/2023)
Kanti
Hospital resumes endoscopy service after two years
(kh 14/01/2023)
Pyuthan
villagers relieved as health post upgrades services :
Earlier Puranthanti villagers had to travel for miles
even for minor treatments , by Shamsher Bikram GC
(kp 10/01/2023)
Nursing
staff crunch leaves hospitals high and dry : Although
the government makes big claims on building hospitals
and expanding health services, it is ignoring the need
to hire nurses that form the backbone of hospitals,
by Rita Lamsal (nlt 07/01/2023) [Despite
this great shortage at home, the government has reached
an agreement with the UK to send 10,000 nurses, even
though nurses there are currently on the barricades
because of poor pay and working conditions!]
Health
Ministry to upgrade KCH into 1,000 bed capacity
children’s hospital (kh 06/01/2023)
Saipal
residents forced to live with debilitating diseases :
Villagers rely on health camps for diagnosis from
medical teams and specialist doctors, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 05/01/2023)
Health
centers remain closed in Badimalika, people forced to
visit district hospital, by Sher Bahadur Sarki (rn
04/01/2023)
Kanti
Hospital adds intensive care units, sets up kangaroo
mother care beds : Nepal Demographic and Health
Survey-2022 shows neonatal death rate hasn’t declined in
the past five years, by Arjun Poudel (kp 22/12/2022)
Care
homes: New norm for Nepal? Senior citizens claiming to
be satisfied in care homes should be seen as a survival
strategy rather than a badge of admiration, by
Poonam Thapa (kp 15/12/2022)
Okhaldhunga
Community Hospital starts charging even patients with
health insurance : The hospital has been accused of
violating its agreement with the Health Insurance Board,
by Kumbha Raj Rai (kp 14/12/2022)
Hospital
conducts 36 uterus surgeries by adding financial support,
by Nabin Shishir (rn 10/12/2022)
Construction
of proposed Bardibas Medical College uncertain :
Disputes over land acquisition have affected the plans.
The construction site lies inside a community forest,
by Sunita Baral (kp 08/12/2022)
Hospitals,
clinics operating illegally in Siraha (ht
06/12/2022)
Prolonged
power outage disrupts health services at Mugu Hospital :
Service seekers complain authorities concerned are
insincere about their health, by Raj Bahadur Shahi
(kp 29/11/2022)
Himalayan
Sherpa Hospital benefits locals, tourists (ht
25/11/2022)
Doctor
and bed shortages affect services at BPKIHS hospital :
The hospital is short of at least 1,000 beds across all
units and is currently operating with half the required
workforce, by Pradip Menyangbo (kp 24/11/2022)
Cardio
vascular hybrid theatre set up in TU Manmohan
Cardiothoracic Vascular & Transplant Center (rn
10/11/2022)
Family
of deceased stage protests at KMC, accuse doctors’s
negligence in the treatment (rep 05/11/2022)
Dhankuta
District Hospital in shambles : The hospital, which is
one of the oldest in Province 1, has become a shell of
its former self for a lack of upgrade, by Devendra
Bhattarai and Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp 04/11/2022)
Chitwan
gets another Cancer Hospital (rn 26/10/2022)
Manpower
shortage affects health services in Lumbini : Hospitals
have not been built in 89 local units out of 109 under
the ‘one municipality, one hospital’ programme, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 25/10/2022)
700
people receive treatment during Dashain vacation (kh
12/10/2022)
Three
held in connection with vandalism at Chitwan Medical
College (kh 11/10/2022)
BP
Koirala Institute of Health Sciences starts its own
pharmacy : In the absence of a government-run pharmacy
patients had to buy medicines at a higher prices from
private drugstores, by Pradip Menyangbo (kp
16/09/2022)
Seven
years since completion, local hospital in Chhedagada yet
to be brought into service : Officials say dispute in
handover of the building modelled to accommodate a fully
facilitated hospital has led to delay in its operation,
by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp 12/09/2022)
Trishuli
Hospital to provide blood for emergency treatment
(kh 10/09/2022)
Is
Prasuti Griha neglecting its women? With slow and
inefficient services, the only government-run maternity
and women’s hospital in Nepal makes patients wait for
hours for even the most basic of services or refers them
to Bir Hospital, by Anushka Nepal (ae 08/09/2022)
Unregistered
hospitals, pharmacies boom in Janakpur, by Manika
Jha (ae 08/09/2022)
Doctors
of Karnali Health Academy resign en masse citing
insecurity : A doctor was physically assaulted by a
young patient’s father last month, by DB Budha (kp
08/09/2022)
Sankhuwasabha
District Hospital overwhelmed with patients : The health
institution is treating patients out of its lobby for a
lack of space, by Dipendra Shakya (kp 04/09/2022)
Mustang
District Hospital starts surgery services, 48 years
after its establishment : Concerns, however, remain
about the sustainability of the service as the hospital
frequently reels under shortage of human resource,
by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp18/08/2022)
Suresh
Wagle Cancer Centre block constructed at TU Teaching
Hospital (kh 17/08/2022)
Service
at Dhaulagiri Hospital has gone out of gear, patients
complain : Shortage of staff and rise in the number of
patients have affected service delivery, by Prakash
Baral (kp 16/08/2022)
Dialysis
machine yet to be installed (kh 13/08/2022)
KMC
issues 24-hour ultimatum to Norvic Hospital to remove
illegal structures (kh 09/08/2022), KMC,
Norvic Hospital to form joint task force to study
encroachment of public land (kh 09/08/2022), Kathmandu
Metropolitan City backtracks from 24-hour ultimatum to
Norvic Hospital : A probe committee comprising Kathmandu
Metropolitan City officials and Norvic Hospital
technical team has been formed for investigation (kp
10/08/2022), SC
orders KMC not to remove Norvic Hospital structures
(rep 11/08/2022)
Chitwan
Medical College establishes cancer hospital (kh
08/08/2022)
Madyabindu
district hospital in Nawalparasi grappling with shortage
of workforce (kh 08/08/2022)
Why
new hospital pharmacy service guideline needs to be
amended, by Nabin Pathak (nlt 31/07/2022)
Four-bed
health center in government school (kh 30/07/2022)
With
patient numbers soaring, Bheri Hospital faces shortage
of beds : Patients with typhoid, common cold, diarrhoea,
fever, and cough have increased at the hospital with the
monsoon at its peak, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp
30/07/2022)
Shortage
of oxygenators forces heart hospitals to halt routine
surgeries : Hospitals, including Shahid Gangalal
National Heart Centre, say the key devices are in short
supply (kp 21/07/2022)
Two
provincial hospitals in Lumbini offer free health
services : Lumbini Provincial Hospital in Butwal and
Rapti Provincial Hospital in Dang have started free
health checkups for all including a waiver in certain
fees, by Sanju Paudel (kp 19/07/2022)
Health
posts without medicines for two weeks : Government
health facilities at Chhatreshwori Rural Municipality in
Salyan have run out of essential medicines, forcing
locals to seek treatment elsewhere, by Biplob
Maharjan (kp 17/07/2022)
Ghorahi
children’s hospital remains shut for years (rn
25/06/2022)
Taking
wealth out of health : If these public-private
partnership hospitals in rural Nepal can provide free
care, so can the state, by Anita Shrestha (nt
24/06/2022)
Hospitals
closing health insurance program (kh 23/06/2022)
In
rural Salyan, an uphill struggle for medical care : Some
villagers say they’d rather endure the pain and resort to
traditional healing methods than walk for hours to get
medical treatment, by Biplob Maharhan (kp 18/06/2022)
Construction
of basic hospital put on hold for lack of budget : The
construction of a 15-bed hospital in Lekhpokhara,
Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality-5, started a year and a
half ago but the contractor company has stopped work citing
non-payment, by Biplab Maharjan (kp 03/06/2022)
Lack
of orthopaedic doctors at Baitadi district hospital costs
patients dearly : The absence has deprived people from the
hilly district of timely treatment, leaving many disabled,
by Tripti Shahi (kp 20/05/2022)
Mugu
District Hospital out of medicines : With the change in
seasons, the hospital is seeing an increasing number of
patients daily but has not been able to provide effective
services due to a lack of essential medicines and specialist
doctors, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 10/05/2022)
Death
of a patient triggers protest against hospital in Itahari
(rep 07/05/2022)
Health
institutions to go for two-day weekend (rep 06/05/2022)
Ministry
preparing strategy discouraging private hospital in area
with government facility (kh 02/05/2022)
Mismanagement
plagues Janaki Eye Hospital : The Janakpur-based
hospital has been without a chief administrator for four
years, by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 01/05/2022)
MoU
signed for IEE of Pokhara University teaching hospital
(kh 29/04/2022)
Trauma
center comes into operation at CMC (kh 29/04/2022)
Two-day
weekend will add to case backlogs at hospitals, doctors
say : Concerns grow patients needing surgeries, renal
transplantations will suffer more, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 29/04/2022)
Senior
citizens deprived of state facilities at hospital
(ht 26/04/2022)
BPKIHS
sees progress in reforms (kh 07/04/2022)
Health
laboratory in Madhes Province begins whole-genome
sequencing : With this, the number of labs with
whole-genome sequencing capability has reached five in
Nepal, by Arjun Poudel (kp 01/04/2022)
Dolpa
District Hospital without electricity for a month :
There is no electricity in the hospital and other parts
of the district as the Jairikhola Hydropower Project has
been closed for repair and maintenance since February 27,
by Hari Gautam (kp 28/03/2022)
Govt
To Expand Eye Care Section In District Hospitals (rn
28/03/2022)
Hospital
for infectious diseases comes into operation in Kalikot
(kh 21/03/2022)
Lack
of docs hits patients in Dhankuta Hospital (ht
19/03/2022)
Irate
relatives gherao Tinau Hospital after the death of
patient (kh 16/03/2022)
First
provincial children’s hospital to come into operation in
Damak : The 50-bed hospital is being built by the
Kathmandu Institute of Child Health. The health
institute plans to operate at least one children’s
hospital each in all seven provinces, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 16/03/2022)
KMC
provides ventilator support to hospitals (kh
03/03/2022)
BPKIHS
desperately waits for health ministry to pay it over Rs
260 million in health insurance (rep 01/03/2022)
Salyan
Hospital in dire need of human resources (kh
01/03/2022)
Mechi
Hospital to be upgraded to 200-bed (kh 28/02/2022)
Mugu
District Hospital without specialist doctors for past
four months : The hospital has been referring patients
for all surgical procedures to health institutions
outside the district, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
17/02/2022)
Health
centres in Salyan without doctors : The residents of
Bagchaur Municipality and Chhatreswori Rural
Municipality are forced to visit private clinics since
the primary health centres in the local units don’t have
doctors or medicines (kp 16/02/2022)
Locals
donate 35 ropani land for hospital in Okhaldhunga
(ht 15/02/2022)
EC
stops collecting voters’ list from today (kh
08/02/2022) [Every person who
has reached the age of 18 on election day has the right
to vote and must therefore be included in the electoral
roll! This is a fundamental right!]
Government
forms study team to build labor hospital (kh
08/02/2022)
Govt
health facilities lack biomedical equipment: Study
(ht 07/02/2022)
Kalikot
women say they feel more at ease with female doctors :
There are six male and three female doctors at the
Kalikot district hospital in Manma, by Tularam
Pandey (kp 04/02/2022)
ICU
ward with ventilators lying dysfunctional in lack of
human resource (kh 31/01/2022)
Medical
equipment left unused at Salyan hospital : The 40-bed
district hospital does not have an ICU and ventilator
facility in the absence of skilled manpower to operate
the medical equipment, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
25/01/2022)
COVID
Special Hospital brought into operation in Janakpur
(kh 21/01/2022)
All
services except emergency, maternity closed at
Madhyabindu District Hospital (kh 20/01/2022)
Bardibas
Hospital starts providing maternity services : The
hospital has also launched laboratory, outpatient and
24-hour emergency services, by Sunita Baral (kp
15/01/2022)
Oxygen
plant left unused in Mugu District Hospital : Work to
install oxygen plant halted after public accounts
committee of Karnali started investigation citing
irregularities in procurement, by Raj Bahadur Shahi
(kp 10/01/2022)
Health
institutions in Achham reel under lack of infrastructure
and manpower : There are more than 500 health
institutions in the district and none of them is
equipped to provide essential services, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 08/01/2022)
Palpa
district hospital shuts down services due to COVID-19
(kh 05/01/2022)
Humla
health facility reeling under shortage of medicines
(rep 02/01/2022)
All-female
staff at health post in Baglung draws praise : Service
seekers, mostly men, are not used to seeing an
all-female staff manning a health post. But for female
patients, the health post is a welcome change, health
workers say, by Prakash Baral (kp 01/01/2022)
Attendants
to patients at public hospitals complain of lack of
sleeping space, poor sanitation : Government guidelines
require hospitals to make living arrangements for
attendants, by Anup Ojha (kp 24/12/2021)
Upgradation
of National City Hospital in Bharatpur reaches final
stage (kh 04/12/2021)
Shukraraj
Tropical Hospital Prepares For Free Emergency Services
From Dec 5 (rn 03/12/2021)
Beni
Hospital in need of medical staff : The only public
hospital in Myagdi is reeling under staff shortage as
Gandaki government did not renew contract of 30 health
workers it had hired at the beginning of the pandemic
two years ago, by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp 02/12/2021)
Bharatpur
Hospital launches ‘trauma emergency service’ (kh
02/12/2021)
Local
units in Rukum (East) expand health services in villages
: Health centres have been established in a majority of
wards to make health services easily accessible to all,
by Hari Gautam (kp 28/11/2021)
Manpower
crunch hits Damauli Hospital (ht 25/11/2021)
Salyan
hospital halts surgical services in the absence of
skilled manpower : The halt in surgical services has
forced people in the district to go to Nepalgunj,
Surkhet or other places for treatment, by Biplab
Maharjan (kp 22/11/2021)
Beni
Hospital grappling with human resource, logistics
shortage (ht 07/11/2021)
Power
disruption affects services in Bajhang hospital : Recent
floods and landslides swept away several electricity
poles and blocked roads, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
27/10/2021)
First
health post established in remote Limi valley : Earlier,
the local residents had to visit Taklakot in China to
receive medical care, by Chhapal Lama (kp
18/10/2021)
Panchthar
Hospital vandalised: Non-emergency services closed
(rep 07/10/2021)
Patients
complain of poor health services at Koshi Hospital :
Many posts of medical staff at the 250-bed hospital are
vacant, which has affected services, by Deo Narayan
Sah (kp 02/10/2021)
No
doctors for hospitals : Incompetent political leadership
and corrupt administration has meant no new doctors have
been appointed in the past four years. This has caused a
great deal of suffering for many Nepalis, by Rudra
Pangeni (rec 30/09/2021)
Dhulikhel
Hospital under pressure as funds are delayed : The
hospital has been struggling to provide salary and
allowance to its employees since the authorities are yet
to release budget for health insurance and Covid-19 risk
allowance, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 30/09/2021)
Municipal
Hospital comes into operation in Balewa (kh
25/09/2021)
Small
hospital projects in Salyan hit by delays, by Biplab
Mahajan (kp 24/09/2021)
Experts
call government plan to set up a hospital for teachers
populist : Say strengthening existing hospitals and
expanding their services is what the country needs in
the current situation, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/09/2021)
Bheri
Hospital manages meal for Rs 20 to patients, attendants
(kh 02/09/2021)
Agitators
at BPKIHS to halt services except emergency and COVID
wards from Sunday (rep 02/09/2021)
A
Dolakha health post operating out of ward office
building : The limited space in the new location has
made the health post rollback on some of its medical
services, such as maternity care for local women. Locals
now have to walk for four hours to reach Jiri bazaar for
treatment, by Kedar Shiwakoti (kp 02/09/2021)
A
hospital without doctors or a functioning lab, by
Kishor Budhathoki (ae 26/08/2021)
Rasuwa
district hospital in need of digital X-ray machine
(kh 24/08/2021)
Primary
health centre in Salyan of little use, by Biplab
Maharjan (kp 23/08/2021)
Patients
deprived of free essential medicines at Mugu government
health institutions : The District Hospital in Gamgadhi
sends patients to private medical stores due to a
shortage of medicines at the hospital, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 29/07/2021
District
Hospital in Taplejungoverwhelmed with patients : The
15-bed hospital has been receiving more than 100
patients on a daily basis, hospital records show, by
Ananda Gautam (kp 28/07/2021)
The
only primary health centre in Jumla without doctor for
four yearsThe health centre also does not have essential
medicines and medical equipment to qualify as a
dedicated treatment centre, local residents say, by
LP Devkota (kp 26/07/2021)
BP
Koirala Institute of Health Sciences closes lab services
after reagent shortage, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
16/07/2021)
Non-resident
Nepalis extend support for child ICU ward (kh
01/07/2021)
People's
representative on hunger strike demanding electricity,
by Bira Gadal (rep 30/06/2021)
Number
of non-COVID patients increase in hospitals (rep
30/06/2021)
Agitating
students and staffs start relay strike BPKIHS Dharan
(kh 28/06/2021)
Health
workers attacked at Dolakha Covid-19 hospital : Three
assailants in police custody, search for the fourth
underway, police say, by Kedar Shiwakoti (kp
28/06/2021)
Bajura
health facilities run out of beds (ht 09/06/2021)
Private
hospital bills give poor Covid-19 patients the shivers :
Hospitals are overcharging patients up to three times
the rates fixed by the government. Yet no action has
been taken, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 23/05/2021)
Gorkha
Hospital overwhelmed; new mother undergoing treatment
inside a tent (rep 10/05/2021)
Exorbitant
Hospital Fees, by Prameshwar Devkota (rn 09/05/2021)
Gaur
Hospital to close health services (ht 01/05/2021)
New
Oxygen plants in Jhapa hospitals (rep 24/04/2021)
Most
hospitals do not have ready supply of oxygen : Experts
criticise lax preparations as the Health Ministry
projects an additional 300,000 Covid-19 cases by July,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 21/04/2021), Oxygen
shortage hits Narayani Hospital (ht 22/04/2021)
District
hospital in Nawalparasi (East) not operating at its full
capacityThe 49-bed facility has been reeling under a
shortage of staff amid Covid-19 pandemic. Local
residents say they have to visit other city hospitals
even for minor illnesses, by Narayan Sharma (kp
21/04/2021)
Overflowing
sewer, dug-up road greet patients at some of Capital’s
big hospitals, by Anup Ojha (kp 20/04/2021)
"396
Public Health National Mission" : Encourage civic
engagement, by Simone Galimberti (ht 05/04/2021)
Arghakhanchi
Hospital takes first place in terms of minimum service
standards (kh 20/03/2021)
Salyan
hospital charging exorbitant fees : Local residents
complain that the medical fees at the district hospital
and private hospitals are the same, by Biplab
Maharjan (kp 17/03/2021)
Dialysis
service is free but patients are being charged, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 15/03/2021), Streamlining
critical care : Local hospitals across the country
should be enabled to provide accessible dialysis
services (kp 16/03/2021)
Karnali
hospital in financial trouble as provincial government
delays funds : Health workers have threatened to halt
the services if the outstanding salary is not paid by
March 13, by Chandani Kathayat (kp 09/03/2021)
Health
facilities in Karnali Province fail to attract doctors :
Out of 704 posts of health workers in the province, 441
are vacant, by Jyotee Katuwal (kp 26/02/2021)
Bajhang
people benefit from upgraded district hospital : In the
last two years, the hospital established several
medical units to enhance its services, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 20/02/2021)
Reconstruction
of quake-ravaged health posts gains momentum in
Makwanpur : The Gorkha Earthquake and its powerful
aftershocks in 2015 had destroyed the buildings of nine
health posts in the district, by Pratap Bista (kp
07/02/2021)
Tarakhola
Rural Municipality starts laboratory, hospital services
in villagesThe availability of health services in the
villages has relieved many local residents of the
expense of seeking medical treatment elsewhere, by
Prakash Baral (kp 28/01/2021)
BPKIHS
docs stage protest for allowance (ht 19/01/2021)
Frontline
workers at Kalaiya Hospital deprived of Covid-19 risk
allowance : They have been staging a sit-in for the past
one week demanding immediate release of the allowance,
by Laxmi Sah (kp 18/01/2021)
Pyuthan
District Hospital fails to provide effective health
services : Most people in Pyuthan are compelled to
seek medical care elsewhere as doctors are not
always present at the district hospital, by
Giru Prasad Bhandari (kp 16/01/2021)
Record-holder
climber Phurba Tenzing Sherpa hands over health post
building constructed in Beding (kh 03/01/2021)
Government
issues BCH Development Board Formation Order (ht
24/12/2020)
Number
of patients down in hospitals (ht 24/12/2020)
Local
levels told to abide by laws for constructing hospital
buildings (kp 12/12/2020)
Private
hospitals continue to bill their patients for so-called
Covid protection : While the Health Ministry has warned
of action, private hospitals say they cannot operate
with previous rates, by Ajun Poudel (kp 08/12/2020)
Communicable
disease hospital, trauma centre in the offing (ht
01/12/2020)
396
local units to have 15-bed hospitals (kh
30/11/2020), Move
to build 396 hospitals amid pandemic meets scepticism :
Managing human resources will be the key challenge as a
government study says 116,000 additional personnel, four
times the existing provision, will be required for the
new hospitals (kp 02/12/2020)
Govt
directs public hospitals to provide risk allowance to
those working during pandemic (rep 27/11/2020)
Health
facility comes into operation in remote village of
Bajura (ht 26/11/2020)
Govt
seeks clarification from four health facilities (ht
23/11/2020)
Foundation
stone for 394 hospitals to be laid on Nov 30 (kh
22/11/2020)
Health
Ministry warns of taking action against hospitals
denying free of cost treatment to COVID-19 patients
(rep 20/11/2020)
16
doctors working at emergency ward at Bir Hospital resign
(kh 04/11/2020), Doctors
at Bir Hospital resign en masse (rep 05/11/2020)
Status
Of Hospitals In Bagmati For COVID-19 Treatment: Adequate
Isolation Beds, Oxygen Cylinders (rn 03/11/2020)
No
price tagging lives : Citizens must realise that in a
corrupt state, the onus to remain alive is on themselves
(kp 02/11/2020)
Health
facilities in rural Taplejung face shortage of doctors :
Most doctors do not wish to go to remote areas for work
and those who do go stay for two to three months only,
by Ananda Gautam (19/10/2020)
Others
also count : Hospital facilities should be managed
separately for Covid and non-Covid patients so that the
latter are not deprived of treatment (ht 14/10/2020)
Govt
hospitals in capital told to treat COVID-19 patients,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 13/10/2020)
Bhairahawa
Covid-19 hospital lacks infrastructure and human
resource : The hospital had received three ventilators
from provincial government but there are no staff to
operate them, by Madhav Dhungana and Sanju Paudel
(kp 12/10/2020)
Hospitals
urged to defer elective surgeries (ht 12/10/2020)
Health
workers in Karnali Provincial Hospital at risk : A
senior doctor at the hospital died due to Covid-19
related complications on Thursday; One-fourth of
the health workers at the hospital have been infected so
far, by Kalendra Sejuwal and LP Devkota (kp
03/10/2020)
Private
hospitals, labs to charge Rs 3,899 for PCR test : Say Rs
2,000, the charge set by the government, too less,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 29/09/2020)
Fear
of infection still keeping patients away from hospitals
across the country : Doctors worry patients avoiding
hospital visits for fear of contracting Covid-19
could lead to far worse consequences in cases of
heart and stomach problems and cancers, by Samiksha
Baral (kp 25/09/2020)
Most
district hospitals in Gandaki Province fail to set up
ICUs despite having the budget : Provincial government
had allocated budget to nine district hospitals to set
up ICUs but only two have followed through (kp
16/09/2020)
Local
units in Udayapur come together to build Covid hospital,
by Dilliram Khatiwada (kp 11/09/2020)
Federal
government injecting budget into district hospitals
without proper study : The hospitals identified by the
federal government as corona-specific hospitals are in
no condition to be upgraded immediately for the
treatment of coronavirus patients, health officials say,
by Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 29/08/2020)
Govt.
Decides To Add 6,201 Beds In Public Hospitals (rn
28/08/2020)
Can’t
set aside 1,000 beds for Covid, private hospitals say,
by Timothy Aryal (kp 27/08/2020)
Newly
built hospital in Kapilvastu yet to come into operation,
by Manoj Paudel (kp 24/08/2020)
BP
Koirala Institute of Health Sciences demands
point-of-care diagnostic device for its emergency unit:
Health workers deployed at the emergency department are
at risk of Covid-19 infection due to a lack of a faster
device to test for the virus in patients, hospital
officials say, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 19/08/2020)
Kalaiya
Hospital in Bara shut down after its employees test
positive for the coronavirus: A doctor and 10 health
workers and staff at the hospital who tested positive
for the virus are currently in isolation, by Laxmi
Sah (kp 09/08/2020)
BPKIHS
faces challenge managing COVID-19 cases (ht
09/08/2020)
Procedure
to regulate health facilities issued (kp 09/08/2020)
Kathmandu
hospitals overwhelmed by Covid-19 patient surge: With
all beds occupied, authorities stop informing people
about their test results, by Arjun Poudel (kp
05/08/2020)
With
state-run hospitals overwhelmed, government permits
private hospitals to admit patients: Public health
experts say that the government should not shun its
prime responsibility of protecting the people, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 31/07/2020)
Health
facilities reeling under medicine crunch (ht
29/07/2020)
Nepal
Army plans to upgrade and expand its health facilities:
The national defence force has added three provincial
hospitals in the last one year (kp 21/07/2020)
Parbat
Hospital closed for the last four days after doctors
infected with coronavirus: Officials say they are
waiting for the test results of other staffers who may
have come into contact with the infected, by
Agandhar Tiwari (kp 23/06/2020)
Hospitals
turn away patients with fever, by Laxmi Gautam (ht
02/05/2020)
Private
Hospitals & Medical Ethics, by Yam Bahadur Dura
(rn 28/04/2020)
Mahakali
Hospital scraps tender with supplier after the latter
provided old and rusty ventilator: The hospital had
invited a tender of Rs 5.7 million three weeks ago to
purchase a ventilator, patient monitors, and blood gas
analysers, among other medical equipment, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 23/04/2020)
Seti
hospital sees decline in number of visiting patients:
The reason behind this fall in the number of patients
visiting the hospital is the fear of catching the virus
and lack of trust in hospital administration, by
Arjun Shah (kp 15/04/2020)
COVID-19
testing starts at Bir Hospital (rep 12/04/2020)
Covid-19
pandemic pushes provinces to invest in local hospitals:
All seven provinces are upgrading existing facilities in
anticipation of a Covid-19 outbreak, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 11/04/2020)
Elderly
turned away by hospitals, dies, by Tekendra Deuba
(ht 09/04/2020)
Seti
Hospital health workers at risk (ht 08/04/2020)
Karnali
government’s decision to set up isolation facilities yet
to be implemented: Designated health institutions face
difficulties in setting up isolation wards due to lack
of budget, by Jyoti Katuwal, LP Devkota and Hari
Gautam (kp 07/04/2020)
Hospitals
outside Kathmandu ill-prepared to fight coronavirus
outbreak: Lack protective gear, N95 masks, ICU beds,
ventilators, PPE stock in Seti Provincial Hospital won’t
last even four days, by Sabitri Dhakal (ht
07/04/2020)
Sukraraj
hospital needs anaesthetists, critical care physicians,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 06/04/2020)
Govt
plans to bring all private hospitals under its control
to fight Covid-19 (rep 06/04/2020)
Coronavirus
testing hospitals in Province 1 shirk their
responsibility: Patients with flu-like symptoms are
being referred to BP Koirala Institute of Health
Sciences without tests, doctors at Dharan-based hospital
say, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 05/04/2020), Gandaki
government orders hospitals to treat patients, or face
action: The directive comes three days after the Supreme
Court ordered the centre to make arrangements to treat
Covid-19 patients, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
05/04/2020)
Private
hospitals in Dhangadhi start partial health services:
Mayor threatens to cancel the licence of private
hospitals that fail to treat patients, by Arjun Shah
(kp 04/04/2020)
Private
health facilities refusing service to face music (ht
02/04/2020))
Govt
to take strict action against hospitals not attending to
patients (rep 30/03/2020)
Rolpa
District Hospital lacks medical equipment to collect and
preserve nasal and throat swabs from Covid-19 suspects,
by Kashiram Dangi (kp 28/03/2020)
Rs
25 million earmarked for hospitals to run fever clinics
across the country (ht 27/03/2020)
Bir
Hospital launches phone consultation service (ht
27/03/2020)
Nepal’s
hospitals directed to suspend OPD, surgery until
mid-April (Khabarhub 20/003/2020), Hospitals
with 50 or more beds told to suspend non-urgent
checkups, surgeries (rep 21/03/2020) [This
will affect basic health care, especially in rural
areas!]
Hetauda
Sub-metropolis sets up urban health centres in all
wards: The local unit has also decided to establish a
health desk in all SEE centres, by Pratap Bista (kp
16/03/2020)
A
hospital which sees a high number of patients from India
ill-equipped to deal with Covid-19 suspects: Geta Eye
Hospital in Godavari Municipality, Kailali, receives
more than 100 patients from India daily, by Chitrang
Thapa (kp 16/03/2020)
Japan
hands over eye hospital to Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh
Udayapur (rep 29/02/2020)
First
military hospital of east Nepal comes into operation in
Itahari (rep 29/03/2020)
Burtibang
Primary Health Centre lacks ambulance, blood transfusion
centre: The centre has been referring patients to other
health institutions for lack of employees and resources,
by Prakash Baral (kp 23/02/2020)
Sanibheri
Rural Municipality starts providing health services from
a 15-bed hospital: The hospital has started providing
24-hour emergency services, OPD, IPD and lab facilities,
maternity and X-ray services and minor surgery
facilities, by Hari Gautam (kp 22/02/2020)
Tension
at Rangeli Hospital continues into second day (ht
19/02/2020)
Sanibheri
Rural Municipality builds 15-bed hospital, by Ganesh
Bishu (rep 18/02/2020)
Authorities’
apathy leaves Bardiya monuments in dilapidated state:
Local governments have failed to even identify and
conduct studies on ancient sites of archaeological
importance, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 17/02/2020)
Province
5 government preparing master plan to upgrade Lumbini
Provincial Hospital: As per the master plan, the
existing building will be demolished and a new building
will be erected in its stead, by Amrita Anmol (kp
17/02/2020)
Lumbini
Provincial Hospital’s One-stop Crisis Management Centre
is crippled by lack of infrastructure and staff: Victims
of gender-based and domestic violence say they face a
hard time whenever they visit the centre, with no one
available to listen to them, by Amrita Anmol (kp
16/02/2020)
Bhim
Hospital starts 24-hour lab services, by Mohammad
Habib (rep 14/02/2020)
Nepal’s
hospitals have no ICUs to treat coronavirus patients,
doctors say: The government plans to place any
coronavirus patients in public hospitals, but these
hospitals have few ICU beds that are almost always
occupied, by Arjun Poudel (kp 12/02/2020)
Doctors
crunch hits Jajarkot Hospital (ht 12/02/2020)
Health
centres in Likhu Tamakoshi Rural Municipality in
Ramechhap suffer for lack of essential medicines: The
rural municipality has not passed the current fiscal
year’s budget because of a dispute between its chair and
vice-chair (kp 04/02/2020)
Manpower
crunch hits Sushil Koirala Cancer Hospital (ht
27/01/2020)
Empower
local health institutes: Instead of airlifting
childbearing women from remote districts, the government
should think of strengthening local health system which
can save a myriad of pregnant and postpartum women,
by Mukesh Adhikari (rep 27/01/2020)
Patients
suffer as Doti hospitals rely on donors for blood need:
Most of the hospitals in the district refer patients to
hospitals outside the district for lack of blood, by
Mohan Shahi (kp 21/01/2020)
Government
to establish geriatric wards in four more hospitals this
fiscal year (ht 21/01/2020)
Private
hospitals still burning, burying and disposing of
hazardous waste together with municipal waste, a new
study shows: Health facilities’ reluctance to abide by
the rules is putting public health at risk and polluting
environment, experts say, by Arjun Poudel (kp
17/01/2020)
Study
shows nearly 81 percent of private health facilities are
not using WHO-recommended refrigerators to store
vaccines: Of the 1,445 private health facilities
operating in the Kathmandu Valley, 52 health facilities
are providing immunisation services, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 15/01/2020)
Challenges
Of Hospital Waste Management, by Om Prakash Ghimire
(rn 13/01/2020)
With
federal set-up in place, Karnali Provincial Hospital
changes for the better: In the last fiscal year alone,
the provincial government has allocated Rs400 million to
upgrade the hospital, by Chandani Khatayat (kp
08/01/2020)
Ailing
Jajarkot hospital awaits govt intervention, by Janak
KC (rep 06/01/2020)
Country’s
largest cancer hospital comes into operation in Birtamod
(ht 03/01/2020)
Establishment
of health centre elates women in a Doti village: The
health centre will provide prenatal check-ups, safe
maternity services, immunisation programmes and other
primary treatments, by Mohan Shahi (kp 30/12/2019)
Medical
Council finds negligence in blood mismatch case of
Shahid Gangalal: Blood prescription sent to Nepal Police
forensic lab to determine the person involved in writing
the wrong blood type, by Arjun Poudel (kp
26/12/2019)
170
basic health centres to be built in Karnali (ht
24/12/2019)
Seven
central hospitals to be made mother-and-baby-friendly:
The Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative was launched in
1991 by the World Health Organization and the United
Nations Children’s Fund, by Arjun Poudel (kp
23/12/2019)
Grande,
doctors made mistakes, says Nepal Medical Council
(ht 23/12/2019), Medical
council’s ruling on Grande Hospital negligence offers
nothing, infant’s father says: The council has directed
the hospital to put one doctor on a probation and issued
a warning to another, by Atjun Poudel (kp
24/12/2019)
Patients
return untreated as health post lacks personnel: Given
the remoteness of the villages in Rukum (East), health
workers are reluctant to move to the health post, say
locals, by Hari Gautam (kp 15/12/2019)
Hospitals
in Sudurpaschim hills lack doctors to perform
postmortems: Province’s residents are forced to travel
as far as Dhangadi to get the procedure done, by
Mohan Shahi (kp 13/12/2019)
Water
crisis hits ealth facility hard (ht 11/12/2019)
37
health centres barred from providing medical check-up
service to migrants (ht 11/12/2019)
Eye
clinic established at Janasewa Community Hospital
(rep 08/12/2019)
Federal
government starts process to open medical college in
Surkhet: Ministry of Forest and Environment has already
given permission to conduct an environmental impact
assessment in six community forests, by Chandani
Khatayat (kp 25/11/2019)
Hospitals’
role to combat climate change stressed (ht
19/11/2019)
Health
facilities in Bajhang district hospital improve
drastically, say locals: The hospital had been marred
with a shortage of doctors for a long time but the
vacant posts are now filled, by Basanta Pratap Singh
(kp 15/11/2019)
Province-level
teaching hospital to be constructed in Dhankuta, by
Malati Moktan (rep 13/11/2019)
Too
many patients, not enough doctors at Mangalbare Hospital
in Morang: Currently, the hospital has appointed three
doctors on a contract basis to treat patients, by
Deo Narayan Sah (kp 08/11/2019)
Maternity
services closed in Bhojpur District Hospital for past
three months: Pregnant women with health complications
are forced to travel as far as Dharan, Biratnagar and
Kathmandu due to the service closure, by Alisha
Shrestha (kp 04/11/2019)
15-bed
hospital comes into operation (ht 03/11/2019)
Solukhumbu
district hospital sans doctors (rep 02/11/2019)
A
driver’s family struggles to receive his body from
hospital: B&C Medical College has refused to hand
over Janga Bahadur Rajbanshi’s body until the family
clears his treatment fees, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp
26/10/2019)
Protest
grips Chitwan Medical college over patient's death:
Police fire 40 rounds of teargas and detain 12 people
for vandalism, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
21/10/2019)
Serious
case of neglect: Anomalies in public and private health
institutes are making headlines; hat is the health
minister doing? (rep 21/10/2019)
‘Doctors
at BPKIHS prescribing food supplements unnecessarily to
patients’, by Rohit Rai (rep 20/10/2019)
A
private hospital’s negligence has an infant on the verge
of death: A string of errors and oversights by doctors
at Grande International Hospital has destroyed a
15-month-old child beyond repair, his parents allege,
by Swarup Acharya (kp 19/10/2019)
Police
arrest five including Nidan Hospital officials and a
government section officer over kidney scam: A patient
had filed a complaint saying he was lured into selling
his kidney but was later cheated, as the hospital
created a fake donor, by Arjun Poudel (kp
17/10/2019)
Province
3 focused on improving services at govt hospitals
(ht 17/10/2019)
In
past year, BP Koirala Cancer Hospital provided treatment
worth Rs 4 billion to patients for free: The hospital
has been providing treatment to patients who have to
invest more than Rs 200 million for their treatment, to
children below the age of 15 and to senior citizens,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 15/10/2019)
Dadeldhura
hospital paralyzed for lack of doctors, nurses, by
Pushkar Bhandari (rep 13/10/2019)
Patients
deprived of free medicines (ht 04/10/2019)
Clarification
sought from Grande Hospital for medical negligence
(ht 30/09/2019), Medical
council directs Grande Hospital to furnish clarification
over infant medical negligence claim: The hospital is
accused of putting a newborn through an ordeal of
multiple surgeries and high-dose medication, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 01/10/2019), Grande’s
refusal to admit any responsibility shows insensitivity:
Nepal Medical Council would do well to remember that its
own investigation panel has found mistakes and instances
of negligence in this case (kp 03/10/2019)
Conducting
survey after staff adjustment creates problems in health
facilities: Officials say additional posts are being
created for those who have political connections, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 29/09/2019)
Health
services at Rapti Academy of Health Sciences affected
due to doctors’ protest: The doctors have been
protesting against vice-chancellor Dr Sangita Bhandari,
claiming that she misbehaved with them, by Durgalal
KC (kp 25/09/2019)
Hospitals
operating unlawfully in Rautahat (ht 20/09/2019)
Health
workers providing treatment under leaking roof (rep
14/09/2019)
Hospital
management committee demand upgrade of Rolpa District
Hospital: The committee wants to upgrade the 15-bed
hospital to a 50-bed health institution, by Kashiram
Dangi (kp 13/09/2019)
Patients
at Lumbini hospital are being treated on the floor: The
provincial hospital receives around 1,200 patients on a
regular basis, by Amrita Anmol (kp 12/09/2019)
Charikot
Hospital in Dolakha gaining popularity for its maternal
care services: 2,700 pregnant women opted for
institutional delivery at the hospital in the last three
and a half years, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
08/09/2019)
Sick
hospitals sans doctors, by Rekha Bhusal (rep
07/09/2019)
Province
5 sets criteria for hospital committee chief’s
appointment: Due to the lack of necessary legal
provisions, the hospitals are being managed by forming a
development committee, by Ghanshyam Gautam (kp
03/09/2019)
Biratnagar
Eye Hospital introduces ‘vision bus’ programme: The
service features facilities such as eye examination,
medication and diagnosis, by Deo Narayan Sah (kp
02/09/2019)
Gajendra
Narayan Singh Hospital in Rajbiraj being upgraded to a
fully-facilitated one: Ministry of Health and Population
has allocated Rs 760 million for the upgradation of the
hospital, by Abadhesh Kumar Jha (kp 01/09/2019)
Employees
picket hospital (ht 28/08/2019)
Bharatpur
Hospital fails to reclaim its alloted lands, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 25/08/2019)
How
Nepal’s oldest hospital, and the government that runs
it, continue to fail the country’s poor: Beset by a lack
of staff, mismanagement and political interference, Bir
Hospital has become a shell of its former self, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 24/08/2019), Not
everyone can afford to go abroad for medical treatment:
Bir Hospital is intrinsically connected to the larger
public health picture, and its service delivery and
capacity should be improved (kp 26/08/2019) [If
you belong to the 6 per cent of the population who are
male Bahuns, then you meet the main requirements for a
job as a leading politician. As such, you can be treated
abroad at any time at the expense of the state!]
Rolpa
District Hospital struggling in lack of resources,
by Dinesh Subedi (kp 22/08/2019)
Bheri
Zonal Hospital to be upgraded to specialized hospital of
the state (rep 21/08/2019)
Strengthen
primary health care to lower mortality rates: Nepal's
eminent cardiologist on the need for a comprehensive
paediatric hospital, interview with Bhagwan Koirala
(kp 20/08/2019)
Sindhuli
Hospital without doctors (ht 20/08/2019)
Seti
Zonal Hospital likely to face acute shortage of doctors
(ht 17/08/2019)
Patan
Mental Hospital overwhelmed but government help slow in
coming, by Aditi Baral (rep 17/08/2019)
Triganga
Eye Treatment Center being upgraded into a full-fledged
hospital, by Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 16/08/2019)
Dadeldhura
District Hospital sans docs (ht 13/08/2019)
Siraha
polyclinics monitored (ht 13/08/2019)
Woman’s
death sparks tension at Nobel Medical College (ht
01/08/2019)
Medicine
shortage hits Jajarkot Hospital hard (ht 30/07/2019)
Patients
who arrive at Bir Hospital are forced to return, and
seek private care: Despite a budget of Rs 2 billion and
a 1,200-strong staff, the hospital is plagued by
irregularities and mismanagement, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 29/07/2019)
Bir
marks 130th anniversary (ht 29/07/2019)
Tilganga
Institute of Ophthalmology recognised as WHO’s
collaborating centre: The hospital is the first health
facility in the country to get such recognition from the
UN health agency, by Arjun Poudel (kp 22/07/2019), Seeing
is believing: Tilganga is renowned internationally for
its excellent and affordable eye care services (kp
23/07/2019)
Patient’s
death sparks tension in Siraha (ht 21/07/2019)
Foundation
stone of Bindabasini Natural Hospital laid (ht
17/07/2019)
Dadheldhura
Hospital closed over staff security concerns: Doctors
and staff at the hospital are unwilling to resume
work citing unfavourable environment, by Panta
(kp 13/07/2019)
Newly-built
hospital buildings handed over to govt, by Sujeeta
Pradhan (kp 13/07/2019)
235
benefit from hospital programme (ht 12/07/2019)
Snakebite
patients in trouble as treatment center remains shut for
three days, by Tanka Chhetri (rep 12/07/2019)
Karnali
province hospitals ill-equipped and understaffed
(rep 12/07/2019)
Ailing
public health facilities (rep 11/07/2019)
Pricey
tarai hospitals beckon as facilities in hills are
rudimentary, by Giriraj Baskota and Daman Rai (rep
10/07/2019)
Locals
vandalize snakebite treatment center in Sarlahi after
toddler dies, by Tanka Chhetri (rep 10/07/2019)
Patients
find it hard to get beds in country’s central mental
hospital: The 50-bed hospital, which is always crowded,
struggles to accommodate those in need of immediate
in-patient care, by Arjun Poudel (kp 04/07/2019)
CT
scanner at Trauma Centre non-functional (ht
29/06/2019)
Kavre
health post run by women in dire straits for lack of
equipment: Health workers are forced to refer patients
to hospitals in Dhulikhel and Banepa, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 28/06/2019)
200,000
district residents depend on an understaffed 15-bed
hospital, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 27/06/2019)
Patients
hit as operation theatre turns into store room,
by Sabitri Dhakal (kp 27/06/2019)
Unmanaged
hazardous hospital waste is a cause for concern in
Capital: The city authority recently penalised five
state-run hospitals and some private-run hospitals for
disposing of hazardous hospital waste alongside
household waste, by Arjun Poudel (kp 25/06/2019)
CT
scan service shut following radiation leak, by
Sabitri Dhakal (ht 23/06/2019)
Some
medics at Dhading hospital unpaid since 11 months,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 21/06/2019)
Staffers’
strike in Bhaktapur Hospital affects patients (ht
20/06/2019)
Sarlahi
hospital in a dire straits, by Om Prakash Thakur (kp
06/06/2019)
Bir
Hospital has a new building—but it does not have human
resources: Hospital administration says it immediately
needs at least 70 staffers, by Arjun Poudel (kp
03/06/2019)
Lack
of staff in Sushil Koirala hospital affects health
services: Hospital needs 200 health staff to operate its
equipment, by Rupa Gahatraj (kp 29/05/2019)
Lack
of specialists in Mugu Hospital affects services, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 16/05/2019)
Garkhakot
Primary Health Centre sans doctors (ht
16/05/2019)
Government
stops reimbursing health facilities for offering free
treatment to ‘disadvantaged’: Dozens of state and
private health facilities have signed the agreement with
the ministry and have been providing services
accordingly, by Arjun Poudel (kp 13/05/2019)
Patients
deprived of essential drugs at state-run health
facilities across the country: Most local and provincial
governments have failed to purchase medicines on time,
resulting in the unavailability of drugs, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 09/05/2019)
Death
of child due to blood mismatch calls heart centre’s
safety protocol into question: A five-year-old girl with
‘O’ positive blood group was transfused ‘A’ positive
blood at Gangalal hospital, by Arjun Poudel (kp
07/05/2019), Probe
into the death of five-year-old girl to start today: Dr
Bhagawan Koirala-led five-member team to look into
the death that was apparently caused from a blood
mismatch during a surgery at Shahid Gangalal
National Heart Centre, by Arjun Poudel and Nayak
Paudel (kp 15/05/2019)
Makwanpur
local units take over health posts, by Pratap Bista
(kp 06/05/2019)
Jhapa’s
B&C Hospital detains teenager for not paying his
medical bills (rep 01/05/2019)
Monitoring
of
private health facilities halted for months: Province 3
health offices do not have the latest health data due to
lack of personnel, by Arjun Poudel (kp 30/04/2019)
A
philanthropist gives Rs30 million to construct spinal
injury hospital in Chitwan, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 23/04/2019)
Contractor
leaves project halfway, demands full money, by
Shumsher Bikram GC (rep 20/04/2019)
Shaking
up
the health sector: Nepal’s hospitals have not even
recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be
ready for the Next Big One, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt
19/04/2019)
Sudurpaschim
State Hospital sans doctors for almost two months,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 11/04/2019)
Establish
at least one geriatric hospital in each province: NHRC
(ht 11/04/2019)
Patients
complain of sheer negligence at Seti Zonal Hospital,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal and Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep
11/04/2019)
Upgraded
Hetauda Hospital draws more patients, by Pratap
Bista (kp 09/04/2019)
Bharatpur
Hospital
in shortage of land to build new infrastructure: Several
organizations occupy the hospital's land - some on lease
and some for free, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
09/04/2019)
Dire
state of health post in Achham village affects services,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 08/04/2019), Bitter
pill: Public health is an important issue but is often
overlooked (kp 09/04/2019)
Hospitals
countrywide ailing due to lack of doctors and nurses:
Patients bearing the brunt of acute shortage of human
resources, by Arjun Poudel (kp 01/04/2019)
Local
health posts stop providing info to centre, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 31/03/2019)
National
Accreditation Board for Hospitals certifies Mediciti
Hospital (kp 29/03/2019)
Seti
Hospital
demands surgery equipment, gets CD-4 counting machine
instead: Women seeking institutional delivery services
at the hospital deprived of incentives for months,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 13/03/2019)
Staff
crunch
hits patients at major government hospitals in Valley:
Bir Hospital demands over 400 staff, including
doctors and nurses; Teaching Hospital demands 85
doctors and 128 nurses, by Arjun Poudel (kp
12/03/2019)
Patients
wait
for months on end for a surgery at major hospitals:
Officials at Bir and Tribhuvan University Teaching
hospitals say they lack infrastructure and human
resources to provide timely services, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 10/03/2019)
Poor
local
health units force patients to seek costly treatment in
Capital: Health centres do not have the infrastructure,
nor the personnel to diagnose ailments and provide
proper care, by Arjun Poudel (kp 03/03/2019)
Lab
operators
get deadline for registration and renewal: National
Public Health Laboratory’s move is intended to curb
illegally operating laboratories, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 01/03/2019)
Patients
face difficulties due to poor infrastructure of Achham
District Hospital; medical services affected, by
Menuka Dhungana (kp 28/02/2019)
People
in remote areas of Banke prefer going to Indian
hospitals, by Arjun Oli (kp 28/02/2019)
Shortage
of
beds at Teaching Hospital compromises patients’ health
and safety: Heart patients have to get treated while
sitting on a chair at Manmohan Cardiothoracic Centre,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 25/02/2019)
Private
hospitals
in Chitwan and Kathmandu flout free bed and treatment
rules for poor: Health department: Inspection finds some
hospitals providing free service to political leaders
and their relatives, by Arjun Poudel (kp 24/02/2019)
Bhaktapur
Municipality to run its own hospital, by Krishna KC
(rep 21/02/2019), Bhaktapur
Municipality building Khwopa Hospital (ht
22/02/2019)
More
than
95 percent private hospitals operating from rented
residential buildings: Their six-year-old commitment to
shifting to own safe buildings fails to
materialise, by Arjun Poudel (kp 20/02/2019)
Lack
of doctors forces hospital to shut down (ht
19/02/2019)
A
cancer hospital that cannot even diagnose cancer, by
Ganesh BK (rep 19/02/2019)
Parbat
Hospital is sick, patients compelled to go to other
districts, by Chabilal Tiwari (rep 10/02/2019)
Only
one doctor in Musikot hospital, by Hari Gautam (kp
08/02/2019)
Cancer
patients suffer as Bir struggles to install US$4.1m
outfit: TomoTherapy machine was brought to Nepal nine
months ago (rep 05/02/2019)
Birta
City Hospital vandalized after an infant's mysterious
death (ht 05/02/2019)
Bir
Hospital gynaecology unit rarely sees patients:
Kathmandu Metropolitan City is now responsible for
running the unit, by Arjun Poudel (kp 04/02/2019)
Nepal
Medical Association to shut down all hospitals today:
Doctors to see only emergency cases as they join KC’s
cause, by Nayak Paudel (kp 01/02/2019)
Delay
in construction of health post building hits locals in
Khotang village, by Daman Rai (rep 31/01/2019)
Doctors
starting relay hunger strike from today: Hospitals
across the country to be affected (rep 28/01/2019)
Health
Ministry pushes 15-bed hospital plan (kp 26/01/2019)
Hospitals
handed over to provinces (ht 24/01/2019), Healthy
step:
For any social health security programme to succeed,
first health delivery at the government health
institutions will have to improve drastically (ht
25/01/2019)
All
wards of local levels to have healthcare centres (ht
24/01/2019)
Hospitals
charging fees even for free-of-cost services, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 23/01/2019)
Move
to
scrap hospitals a bargaining chip: ‘Govt wants Nepali
Congress to agree to award affiliation to Manmohan
Memorial Institute of Health Sciences’, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 21/01/2019)
Govt
scraps hospitals named after Girija, Sushil Koirala
(ht 15/01/2019), Nepali
Congress up in arms (ht 15/01/2019), Govt
‘reaches out’ to opposition (ht 16/01/2019), Locals
protest decision to scrap hospital (ht 16/01/2019)
Water
supply to be ensured in hospitals (ht 13/01/2019)
Teaching
Hospital residents on strike, by Nayak Paudel (kp
11/01/2019), Resident
docs of TUTH halt services (ht 12/01/2019)
State
5 to upgrade hospitals, by Nayak Paudel (kp
10/01/2019)
Province
3 government to deploy doctors to health centres, posts
(ht 10/01/2019)
Bir
Hospital
and National Trauma Centre likely to have a single
director: Currently, the hospitals are being run by
acting directors: Bhupendra Kumar Basnet and Dr Binod
Sherchan (kp 06/01/2019)
Government
to
upgrade 5 hospitals outside Capital: Koshi Zonal
Hospital, Narayani Sub-regional Hospital, Bharatpur
Hospital, Bheri Zonal Hospital and Dadeldhura
Sub-regional Hospital will be upgraded to
super-specialist hospitals, by Nayak Paudel (kp
04/01/2019)
Country’s
only mental hospital struggling for resources, by
Tanka Chhetri (rep 24/12/2018)
Nepalis
forced
to seek cure in Delhi as home hospital can’t care:
Chitwan patients say they are compelled to spend hefty
sums of cash in Indian hospital as the local cancer
hospital can’t cure them, by Suresh Raj Neupane (kp
23/12/2018)
Dr
Khadga set to become new director of TU Teaching
Hospital (kp 14/12/2018)
Dhading:
Lack of medical facility affects locals, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 02/12/2018)
Hetauda
eye hospital gets OCT machine (ht 02/12/2018)
Neonatal
ICU at Tikapur Hospital relief for locals, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 01/12/2018)
‘Lack
of patients’ shutters urban health clinic in Teku,
by Anup Ojha (kp 29/11/2018)
Patients
hit due to lack of technicians (ht 06/11/2018)
Hospital
becoming a destination for quality treatment in Karnali,
by DB Budha (rep 04/11/2018)
Irregularities
at Bir Hospital (kp 30/10/2018)
District
hospital starts physiotherapy service (ht
28/10/2018)
Sorry
state of health post building puts staffers lives at
risk (ht 27/10/2018)
Medicine shortage in Tribeni Gram Hospital, by Hari
Gautam (kp 14/10/2018)
Health
facilities still operating from tents (ht
14/10/2018)
Majority
of hospitals in Valley flout basic norms: Environment
department inspects 41 hospitals; 39 fail to comply with
rules, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 11/10/2018)
Bir
Hospital starts outpatient services in Bhaktapur (ht
11/10/2018)
Conflict
victims
turn to local level for reparation: Conflict victims
seek the role of the powerful local governments in the
reparation programme, by Binod Ghimire (kp
30/09/2018)
Dearth
of doctors, staffs affect crucial services at Dhading
hospital, by Sarita Shrestha (rep 27/09/2018)
Civil
Service Hospital upgradation begins (kp 27/09/2018)
Only
8 pc hospital & research centers conduct research,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 25/09/2018)
For
Ruby Valley folk, chopper is the only ride to hospital,
by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 23/09/2018)
Zonal
hospital tense after infant’s death (kp 23/09/2018),
Locals
vandalise Sagarmatha zonal hospital over child’s death
(ht 23/09/2018)
Lack
of health facilities on trekking route hits tourists
(ht 23/09/2018)
No
hospital in East Rukum, locals suffer, by Lokendra
Khanal (kp 22/09/2018)
Pregnant
women, new mothers facing hard time at BPKIHS (ht
09/09/2018)
Seti
Zonal Hospital overcrowded due to seasonal diseases,
by Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep 0809/2018)
Safety
first:
While a lot of these so-called helmet doctors and their
affiliated hospitals aren’t exactly a credit to the
profession or the field of medicine, no one deserves to
work with the sword of Damocles hanging over their head,
by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep 07/09/2018)
Hospital
services to be disrupted: Doctors to halt services
except for emergency today (kp 02/09/2018), Hospital
closure hits patients hard (kp 03/09/2018), Doctors
defer
protest after deal: Agitation put off by a week after
government agrees to amend some contested provisions of
Criminal Code, by Nayak Paudel (kp 04/09/2018), Doctors'
strike: Patients forced to spend nights on cold hospital
floors, by Diya Dhakal (rep 04/09/2018), NMA
protests partially affect hospitals on second day
(rep 04/09/2018)
Hospitals
too get permits to borrow in foreign currency (rep
01/09/2018)
Hospitals
not managing waste properly (ht 31/08/2018)
Health
facilities in Province 7 understaffed, by Mohan Budhair
and Arjun Shah (kp 28/08/2018)
Non-cooperation
of Bir Hospital puts patients’ lives at risk in trauma centre,
by Anita Shrestha (ht 25/08/2018)
Locals
of far-flung Rukum build hospital on their own (rep
23/08/2018) [Hopefully, the project is
run along the restrictive NIP of the Oli goverment!]
Cancer
cases at Kanti rise, govt slashes funds: Grants allocated for
Kanti Children’s Hospital cut by Rs 26.4 million, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 20/08/2018), Invest
in Kanti, invest in our children’s health (rep
21/08/2018)
Rajbiraj
hospital starts dialysis service (ht 18/08/2018)
Bill
requires government hospitals to have their own
pharmacies (ht 17/08/2018)
Hospital
vandalised over patient’s death (kp 14/08/2018)
Patients
freak out as police fire shots in air on hospital
premises, by Ganesh BK (rep 08/08/2018)
New
Military
Hospital building starts services: Tribhuvan-Chandra
Military Hospital honours Nepali soldiers who served the
British Army in World War I (kp 04/08/2018)
Lack
of specialized doctors causing untimely deaths (rep
03/08/2018)
Services
in Lamahi Hospital affected in lack of staff, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 02/08/2018)
Wife
demands probe into journo Thapaliya's death (rep
02/08/2018)
Plan
for 1000-bed hospital in Gandaki Province, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 01/08/2018)
Country’s
oldest hospital marks 129th anniversary (ht
29/07/2018)
Tikapur
Hospital in miserable state, by Yogesh Rawal (rep
19/07/2018)
Hetauda
Hospital bilking women of incentives (ht 12/07/2018)
Patients
hit by ongoing strike at Jajarkot hospital Employees are
unpaid for the past seven months, by Bhim Bahadur
Shahi (kp 11/07/2018)
Brokers
luring patients away from zonal hospital (ht
11/07/2018)
Mugu
health facilities without essential drugs, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 02/07/2018)
Locals
dismayed as construction of health posts halted (ht
30/06/2018)
Jajarkot
Hospital staff on strike over unpaid salaries, by
Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 28/06/2018)
Patients
hit hard due to doctors’ protest at TUTH (ht
28/06/2018)
30
wards in Jumla without health posts, by DB Budha
(rep 23/06/2018)
TUTH
resident doctors stage protest (ht 23/06/2018)
Achham
health facilities face medicine shortage, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 20/06/2018)
Bir
Hospital starts ‘Fibroscan’ service for liver patients
(ht 19/06/2018)
Eateries
at hospital sell hooch, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
14/06/2018)
Upgrade
Sagarmatha zonal hospital, say stakeholders (ht
13/06/2018)
Achham’s
Bayalpata Hospital boon for economically weak (ht
05/06/2018)
Hospital
holds patient captive (ht 05/06/2018)
Bir
Hospital officials under NVC scanner (ht 04/06/2018)
Haemodialysis,
fibro scan machines installed at Bir Hospital (ht
02/06/2018)
Manipal
Hospital resumes services (ht 02/06/2018)
Bir
Hospital to start digital service (kp 01/06/2018)
CII
Foundation hands over health posts in Dolakha (ht
29/05/2018)
Dhading
DHO receives 39 newly-rebuilt health centres, by
Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 27/05/2018)
Lack
of budget delays operation of Eastern Regional Police
Hospital (ht 26/05/2018)
German
couple donates equipment to Tilganga hospital (ht
25/05/2018)
Monopoly
of illegal health centers, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
24/05/2018)
Unions
halt services at Manipal hospital (ht 23/05/2018)
Bir
Hospital starts treatment services for rheumatic
diseases (ht 16/05/2018)
Shortage
of beds hits spinal injury patients (ht 16/05/2018)
Hospitals
lack diagnostic kit for acute undifferentiated fever
(ht 14/05/2018)
Health
Ministry starts Bir Hospital clean-up drive (kp
07/05/2018)
Pyuthan
hospital
tense over botched delivery: Relatives of Radhika Dhamal
claims the hospital tried to cover up her death by
trying to refer her to another hospital (kp
03/05/2018)
Police
hospital flouts rules in drugs purchase, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 01/05/2018)
‘Allow
more hospitals to provide organ transplantation
services’ (ht 30/04/2018)
Locals
protest against medical fee hike (ht 28/04/2018)
Scarcity
of medicines affect health service in Chhinamasta,
by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 26/04/2018)
Trisuli
Hospital to get a new building (rep 26/04/2018)
Construction
of hospital building left in limbo (ht 21/04/2018)
Drug
shortage hits health facilities hard (ht 19/04/2018)
Health
centers operating without required equipment, medicines,
by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 17/04/2018)
Mediciti,
Premier launch cashless health insurance scheme (kp
11/04/2018)
Doctor
blamed for minor’s death (ht 10/04/2018)
Number
of spinal injury patients increasing at trauma centre
(ht 09/04/2018)
Police
and staff clash injures 12 (kp 03/04/2018)
Pay
toilets in TUTH irk users (ht 03/04/2018)
Jajarkot
district hospital runs short of doctors (ht
30/03/2018)
State
of the art rural hospital, by Marty L5ogan (rep
30/03/2018)
Community
hospital for locals of Mugum Karmarong, by Suman
Malla (rep 29/03/2018)
Patan
Hospital starts pacemaker implantation service (ht
28/03/2018)
Bir
Hospital lacks heart surgery equipment (ht
26/03/2018)
Water
crisis hits community hospital hard (ht 26/03/2018)
Services
at Sindhuli hospital improves (ht 25/03/2018)
Bir
Hospital to launch new service (ht 24/03/2018)
CM
Poudel inspects Hetauda hospital (ht 24/03/2018)
Hospital
reeling under staff crunch (ht 23/03/2018)
Bheri
Zonal Hospital in sorry state (ht 20/03/2018)
Seti
hospital lacks infrastructure, doctors (kp
19/03/2018)
Health
centre’s ambulance misused (ht 19/03/2018)
Single
doctor running 50-bed Jajarkot District Hospital, by
Janak KC (rep 18/03/2018)
'Govt
hospitals without doctors, medicines', by Mithilesh
Yadav (rep 16/03/2018)
Jajarkot
health post reeling sans doctors (kp 09/03/2018)
Govt
tells hospitals to make charges public, by Manish
Gautam (kp 07/03/2018), APHIN
agrees to make hospital fees public (ht 08/03/2018)
MCVTC
to expand its services (ht 03/02/2018)
Bir
Hospital providing free cancer screening services
(ht 02/03/2018)
Death
of woman in labour sparks tension (ht 02/03/2018)
Doctors'
protest hits health services in Doti hospital, by
Arun Bam (rep 26/02/2018), Doti
doctors leave district to protest attack on colleague
(kp 27/02/2018), Doti
Hospital closed for last 13 days (kp 03/03/2018), Health
services resume in Doti hospitals (ht 11/03/2018)
Patient
operated on wrong leg at Norvic (ht 25/02/2018), Draft
law to regulate hospitals gathers dust: Surgeon at a
private hospital in Capital operates ‘wrong leg’ of a
patient, by Manish Gautam (26/02/2018), Norvic
docs testify before NMC ethical committee (kp
28/02/2018), NMC
yet to provide files to probe team (kp 09/03/2018),
Two
Norvic docs face suspension (ht 11/03/2018)
Drug
shortage in Gaur hospital (ht 24/02/2018)
Doctors
desert district for security reasons (ht 22/02/2018)
57
hospitals, pharmacies sealed for rule violations (kp
21/02/2018)
Bir
using defective CT scanner despite having new one
(rep 21/02/2018)
Kidney
transplant centre claims remarkable success (kp
18/02/2018)
Siraha
hospital
gasping for blood: Patients are compelled to go to
Lahan, Janakpur, Biratnagar and even Jainagar in India
for treatment, by Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 18/02/2018)
Dolpa
health centres reeling under shortage of medicines
(ht 17/02/2018)
District
Hospital losing patients (ht 15/02/2018)
Government
forms panel to review hospital fees: Panel to analyse
costs of healthcare services and set criteria to fix
prices, by Manish Gautam (kp 12/02/2018)
Prime
Minister
opens 300-bed hospital in Jumla: Deuba says the teaching
hospital will be Karnali region’s backbone of health and
medical education, by LP Devkota (kp 12/02/2018)
Health
facilities facing shortage of vital drugs for pregnant
women, new mothers (ht 10/02/2018)
Panel
to propose fee ceiling for private hospitals (rep
10/02/2018)
Nepal
Nat’l
Hospital ordered to shut down: the hospital does
not possess an operating licence and failed to
meet govt standards (kp 07/02/2018)
Hospital
death sparks protest (kp 06/02/2018)
Hospital
staff refer patients to private labs for commission
(kp 02/02/2018)
Govt
certifies 51 health facilities as adolescent-friendly
(ht 01/02/2018)
Medical
malpractices:
These hospitals would not have dared run their business
had the concerned agencies carried out regular
monitoring (ht 31/01/2018)
BPKIHS constructing building without 'proper' cost
estimation: Report, by Rohit Rai (rep 22/01/2018)
Guns
into malls: Nepal Army demolishes historic hospital to
make way for commercial complex, by Rameshwar Bohara
(nt 19/01/2018)
Patients
being treated in tents in Dhading (ht 18/01/2018)
Private
health facilities violating criteria (ht 16/01/2018)
KAHS
to provide free treatment for uterine prolapse, by
DB Budha (rep 16/01/2018)
Month-long
protest at KIST hits students (ht 14/01/2018), Allow
hospital operations to continue: Patan High Court
(kp 15/01/2018), KIST
medical college resumes services (ht 17/01/2018)
Jaitapur
health post row resolved (ht 12/01/2018)
Jajarkot
District Hospital reels under medicine shortage (rep
11/01/2018)
Mugu's
health post operating without health workers, by Suman
Malla (rep 10/01/2018)
Medicine
shortage hits Bajura health facilities (ht
09/01/2018)
Hospitals
found collecting billions in service charges (kp
06/01/2018)
Bir
Hospital upgrading services for treatment of respiratory
diseases, by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 06/01/2018)
Action
sought against erring hospitals (ht 01/01/2018), Action
recommended against errant hospitals: Four reputed
hospitals were found to be involved in wrongdoing
(kp 02/01/2018), Action
sought against two more health facilities (ht
02/01/2018)
Under-construction
building of TB hospital sealed (ht 29/12/2017)
Udayapur
Hospital faces action (kp 28/12/2017)
KIST
Medical
College shut for past 10 days: The hospital has not
admitted any patient since Monday, as the staff members
are on a strike, demanding a hike in salary and
allowances (kp 24/12/2017)
Hospital
tense following patient’s death (kp 21/12/2017)
Least
health facilities in Province 6, most in 2, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 16/12/2017)
Clarification
sought from hospitals (ht 14/12/2017), Erring
hospitals: The private hospitals should be prevented
from overcharging and the offenders should not be spared
(ht 15/12/2017), Erring
hospitals to face action (ht 22/12/2017)
Seti
Zonal Hospital in sorry state (ht 12/12/2017)
Model
health post in far-flung Bajura (ht 06/12/2017)
Peace,
brother, peace: Filing a complaint is the way to handle
medical negligence, not trashing the hospital, by ND
Subedi (kp 01/12/2017)
STIDH
yet to start ICU service, lacks manpower (ht
25/11/2017)
Gandaki
Medical College padlocked over new mother’s death
(ht 04/11/2017)
Maternity
hospital to provide regular CT scan services (ht
03/11/2017)
HOTC
attracting foreign renal patients also (ht
03/11/2017)
Private
pharmacies to stay put in govt hospitals (ht
29/10/2017)
Hospital
vandals beware: People who engage in violent acts must
be punished according to the existing laws, by
Ghanashyam Chapagain (kp 26/10/2017)
Drug
shortage hits health facilities (ht 23/10/2017)
Transplant
centre to be set up (ht 17/10/2017)
Baitadi
DPHO to hand over health facilities to local levels:
Some 591 health facilities will be handed over to local
govt (ht 14/10/2017)
Nepal
Mediciti launches healthcare package (kp 12/10/2017)
Hospital
starts iris transplantation service in Chitwan (ht
12/10/2017)
Patients
compelled to wait for months for surgery (ht
11/10/2017)
BPKIHS
docs on strike (kp 10/10/2017), Doctors
strike after assault by deceased’s kin (ht
10/10/2017)
Gangalal
hospital’s emergency ward overcrowded (kp
09/10/2017)
Health
services resume as doctors return to work (kp
04/10/2017)
Hospitals
in need of more ICU beds, by Anita Shrestha (ht
04/10/2017)
Udyapyur
doctors on Dashain leave, patients deprived of treatment
(kp 01/10/2017)
BP
Koirala Cancer HOSPitaL adds new building with 80 beds
(kp 27/09/2017)
KIST
hospital tense after patient’s death (ht 25/09/2017)
Closure
of OPD services in hospitals hits patients hard (ht
23/09/2017), OPD
services closed in hospitals for third day, by
Sabitri Dhakal (ht 25/09/2017), Doctors’
strike ‘inhuman’, says NHRC (ht 25/09/2017), Pregnant
women hit hard, by Anita Shrestha (ht 25/09/2017), OPD
services closed on fourth day of strike (ht
26/09/2017), Patients
bear
brunt of docs’ strike: Hundreds of thousands of patients
across country deprived of medical services as doctors
refuse to budge, by Manish Gautam (kp 26/09/2017), Lives
in
peril: The strike goes against the provision of the
Essential Service Operation Act that forbids strikes in
hospitals and health centres (ht 26/09/2017), Docs
up the ante as govt renews call to end strike: NMA warns
of stern protest as patients suffer (kp 27/09/2017),
Patients
affected in Lamjung, by Aash Gurung (kp 27/09/2017),
Malpractice:
Extreme demands have been made by both sides of the case
in holding doctors accountable (kp 27/09/2017), OPDs
closed for 5th day, thousands affected (rep
27/09/2017), Doctors
call off strike after 4-pt deal with govt; hospitals
reopen across country (kp 30/09/2017)
Assaulting
the caregivers: On the rise of workplace violence in
Nepal’s healthcare sector, by Agya Mahat, Madhusudan
Subedi and David Citrin (nt 22/09/2017)
Decision
to make doctors pay for health accidents draws flak,
by Manish Gautam (kp 19/09/2017), NMA
to shut hospitals from tomorrow (kp 21/09/2017)
Ensure
hospitals have pharmacies: SC; The govt has provisions
for free distribution of 70 kinds of medicines (ht
19/09/2017)
No
end to Rasuwa’s tent treatment: Health facility
destroyed in 2015 earthquake yet to be rebuilt, by
Balaram Ghimire (kp 17/09/2017)
Jajarkot
hospital upgraded: Surgical delivery round the clock,
by Janak KC (rep 17/09/2017)
Tension
at two hospitals after death of patients (ht
14/09/2017), Controversy
of Uadayapur District Hospital resolved after two days,
by Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 14/09/2017)
Woman
dies after sinus surgery at Om, by Bishnu Prasad
Aryal (rep 14/09/2017)
Space
crunch hits patients at Paropakar maternity hospital
(ht 12/09/2017)
Zonal
hospital struggles to manage crowd, by Sangam Gharti
Magar (rep 10/09/2017)
Health
facilities to be handed over to local levels (ht
09/09/2017)
Medicine
crisis in Rolpa, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 02/09/2017)
Kathmandu
National Hospital will be shut: Health Ministry (kp
29/08/2017)
Bharatpur
Hospital launches free dialysis, by Shiva Puri (kp
28/08/2017)
National
Hospital makes frantic bid to woo patients (kp
27/08/2017)
27
months on, doctors still treating quake-hit patients
under tents, by Him Nath Devkota (rep 27/08/2017)
[correctly: 28 months!]
Medicine
shortage in 67 health posts, by Jyoti Katuwal (kp
24/08/2017) [related to Dailekh]
TUTH
preparing to start liver transplant service (ht
18/08/2017)
Concrete
Help: An American team that treated earthquake wounded
turns a Japanese highway camp into Sindhuli’s newest
hospital, by Sean Shoemaker (nt 18/08/2017)
Blood
shortage in Bajura hospital, by Arjun Shah (kp
09/08/2017)
Kin
of patient who died at Om hospital end protest (ht
05/08/2017)
Medicine
crunch in Province 7 (ht 04/08/2017)
Dysfunctional
endoscopy machine hits service delivery at BPKIHS
(ht 04/08/2017)
Number
of eye patients rising in Tikapur, by Yogesh Rawal
(rep 03/08/2017)
Doctors
in protest after colleague ‘misbehaved’ (kp
02/08/2017)
Vayodha
Hospital opens first e-ICU in Nepal (ht 30/07/2017)
Poor
service, facilities ail Seti Zonal Hospital, by DR
Panta (kp 29/07/2017)
Dysfunctional
X-ray machine affects service delivery (ht
28/07/2017)
CIAA
raids BPKIHS, suspects irregularities to the tune of 60
million rupees (ht 28/07/2017), MRI
scandal hits BPKIHS (kp 29/07/2017), Hospitals
Under CIAA Scanner (rn 30/07/2017)
Dadeldhura
hospital budget frozen (ht 27/07/2017)
Janakpur
Zonal Hospital struggling with lack of resources, by
Suresh Yadav (rep 26/07/2017)
Trauma
Centre gets Rs 3.5 million (ht 25/07/2017)
Medicine
shortage hits health posts in Rukum, by Ganesh BK
(rep 23/07/2017)
Bir
Hospital to procure new medical equipment (ht
22/07/2017)
Hospitals
reeling under acute shortage of blood in Sunsari (ht
22/07/2017)
Kohalpur
hospitals reopen, by Tekendra Basyal (rep
20/07/2017)
Organ
transplantation:
Govt hospitals provide silver lining for patients;
Experts, however, say challenges remain; stress
infrastructure, human resources (kp 18/07/2017)
Mahara:
Govt committed to upgrading Rapti Hospital (kp
16/07/2017)
Sickle
Cell drugs shortage in Bheri Zonal Hospital, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 13/07/2017), SCD
screening: Bheri Zone Hospital refuses free blood test,
by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 16/07/2017)
Bharatpur
Hospital buys medical equipment worth Rs300m (kp
13/07/2017)
Same
medical equipment but price gap of Rs 50m for 2
hospitals, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 13/07/2017)
HOTC
ready to conduct more organ transplants (ht
12/07/2017)
Bir
Hospital short of equipment, workforce (ht
11/07/2017)
Panel
to probe kidney extraction (ht 11/07/2017)
Lax
enforcement of free care rule at pvt hospitals (kp
09/07/2017)
Shortage
of anti-rabies vaccine hits govt hospitals (ht
08/07/2017)
Govt
hospitals in Biratnagar, Nepalgunj: NMC begins process
to allocate PG seats (kp 07/07/2017)
Bir
discontinues cardio-vascular services (ht
04/07/2017)
Bir
to buy high-end radiotherapy machine for US$4.1m: Amount
enough for machines for three hospitals, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 04/07/2017), Bir's
radiotherapy machine tender call said to be illegal
(rep 06/07/2017), MoH
to probe into Bir scandal (rep 10/07/2017), PM
office directs Bir to cancel tender (rep 19/08/2017)
Rasuwa
district hospital still in sick bed (ht 02/07/2017)
Abandoned
patients face neglect in Bir hospital (ht
01/07/2017)
Bus
park
noise sparks tensions between Bir Hospital and KMC: In
May last year, the bus station in the Old Bus Park was
shifted to Khula Manch, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
22/06/2017)
Nagarik
hospital tense following patient’s death (ht
22/06/2017)
HOTC
launches endoscopic ultrasound service (ht
19/06/2017)
Graveyard
at TUTH obstructs college building construction (ht
19/06/2017)
Mountain
medicine, by Prakash Chandra Timilsena (kp
17/06/2017)
Bloody
hell!
Transfusion happening without testing blood for deadly
diseases: No hospital in Nepal has kit to test HIV
during the 'window period', by Sabitri Dhakal (ht
14/06/2017), Are
blood transfusions to patients in Nepal safe?, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 14/06/2017)
Trauma
centre launches own blood bank (ht 14/06/2017)
Senior
doctors likely to quit BPKIHS (ht 13/06/2017)
Training
for
Bheri hospital staff: SGNHC set to expand heart
services to Nepalgunj; Cath lab equipment to arrive in
about two months (kp 11/06/2017)
Health
posts delivering quality services in quake-hit districts
(ht 11/06/2017)
Rolpa
District Hospital in a sorry state, by Dinesh Subedi
(rep 07/06/2017)
Cancer
specialty hospital opens, by Astha Wagle (kp
04/06/2017)
Bir
Hospital to be upgraded to int’l standards (kp
30/05/2017)
Drugs
crunch hits Bajura health posts (ht 27/05/2017)
Patients
visiting BPKIHS hit hard as CT scan machine goes
dysfunctional (ht 27/05/2017)
Govt
to buy drugs for its hospitals in bid to slash prices:
Private sector charging up to 2,200 pc higher than
company prices, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep
20/05/2017)
Seti
Zonal Hospital opens its own pharmacy (ht
19/05/2017)
Pokhara
hospitals face blood shortage (ht 13/05/2017)
Hospital
classification
to be based on services: According to new guidelines
approved by the Cabinet, health facilities now onwards
will not be classified on the basis of number of beds
they have (kp 07/05/2017)
Health
post still functioning under tents (ht 03/05/2017)
Panel
faults Manipal Hospital for denying treatment to bus
accident victims (kp 27/04/2017)
Norvic
unveils upgradation plans (ht 24/04/2017)
MoH
to open Janata Health Centers in urban areas (rep
18/04/2017)
Nepal
Eye Hospital marks 43rd anniversary (ht 09/04/2017)
Ministry,
KMC to set up 11 health centres: Aim to establish
facilities in all wards of Kathmandu (kp 09/04/2017)
Two
years since gorkha earthquake: Only a quarter of damaged
health facilities rebuilt, by Manish Gautam (kp
05/04/2017)
UNICEF
hands
over first prefab health facility: The health post is
one of 74 such facilities Unicef is helping to build
after the 2015 earthquakes in three severely affected
provinces (kp 04/04/2017)
Free
dialysis service from 11 more hospitals (ht
03/04/2017)
ivil
Service Hospital to expand capacity: A 130-bed facility
to be built to cater to the growing number of patients
(kp 02/04/2017)
Hospital
drawing more patients (ht 31/03/2017)
KOICA
upgrades Tikapur Hospital (kp 27/03/2017)
Football
icon Messi building 14 health centres (kp
25/03/2017)
Squalor
and neglect ill health post in Palpa, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 24/03/2017)
X-ray,
ECG machines unused, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp
24/02/2017)
Youths
vandalise Seti Zonal Hospital (ht 14/03/2017)
Govt
to form separate authority to monitor health facilities
(kp 03/03/2017)
Cashing
in
on tragedy: The growing epidemic of hospital vandalism
and attacks on health workers reflects extreme politics
and erosion of the rule of law in Nepal, by Sonia
Awale (nt 03/03/2017)
Dhulikhel
hospital admits mistake in patient’s death (ht
02/03/2017)
Health
Minister's order fails to improve services at cancer
hospital, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 28/02/2017)
Lack
of health facility hits Kailali folks, by Prakash
Singh (ht 20/02/2017)
Ilam
District Hospital sick of shortage of docs, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 18/02/2017)
Baitadi
PHC without doc for over 7 yrs, by Bira Gadal (rep
18/02/2017)
Dirty
loos at hospital raise concern (ht 17/02/2017)
Gangalal
heart
centre set to expand services to mid-western region: The
move is expected to benefit thousands of heart patients
in the region who either have to travel to Kathmandu or
hospitals in India for treatment, by Manish Gautam
(kp 15/02/2017)
Specialty
services: Services at district hospitals ‘soon’ (kp
12/02/2017), Minister
Thapa vents his anger at bureaucratic red tape, by
Manish Gautam (kp 16/02/2017)
Rs
960m allocated for equipment for PHCs (kp
10/02/2017)
Emergency
operation service to be expanded (ht 10/02/2017)
Govt
hospital-medical school collaboration: Health Ministry
plans to extend specialty services, by Manish Gautam
(kp 08/02/2017)
Costly
medical equipment in disuse in govt hospitals (ht
05/02/2017)
Newborn
baby goes missing from hospital ward in Birgunj:
Relatives accuse doctors, nurse, administration of
negligence (kp 04/02/2017)
Health
Ministry
set to run PG programmes in big govt hospitals: Each
student who wishes to be enrolled in the course will
have to sign a bond first, says Minister Thapa, by
Manish Gautam (kp 03/02/2017)
'Rs
2.36 b splurged on community hospitals under party
influence': Health Ministry has no details of funds
distribution over 14 years, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal
(rep 02/02/2017)
Basic
services available at over 60pc health facilities:
Survey, by Manish Gautam (kp 01/02/2017)
Narayani
Hosp ‘denies’ people free medicines (kp 31/01/2017)
62
per cent health centres offer basic facilities (ht
31/01/2017)
With
top positions vacant, Karnali hospital on verge of
shutdown, by DB Buda (rep 30/01/2017)
Locals
donate social security allowance to build health post
(ht 26/01/2017)
Hospital
construction fails to take off (kp 23/01/2017)
Army
hospital in Chhauni to open its OPD for public (kp
21/01/2017)
Bir
Hospital
establishes own pharmacy on its premises: Expects to
lower financial burden on patients by selling medicines
at subsidised rates (kp 20/01/2017)
BP
Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital: Plaint over
‘embezzlement’ of treatment support, by Shiva Puri
(kp 20/01/2017)
Essential
medicines to be available in districts soon: District
hospitals provide 70 items of medicines free of cost
(rep 17/01/2017)
Urban
health centers in pathetic condition, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 14/01/2017)
Talks
on opening NA hosp to public (kp 10/01/2017)
Upgraded
Intensive Care Unit at Kanti Children’s Hospital
inaugurated (ht 08/01/2017)
Staff
crunch ails district hospital (kp 07/01/2017)
BPKMCH
to bar docs from serving in private clinics (ht
07/01/2017)
Psychiatric
hospital to be built in Nakhu Jail (rep 07/01/2017)
Will
ensure 10pc free beds in private hospitals: Thapa
(kp 04/01/2017)
Private
drugs sellers’ syndicate blocks procurement for hospital
pharmacy, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 03/01/2017)
Critical
health care centralized in capital: 'About 80 percent of
ICU beds are in Kathmandu Valley', by Bishnu Prasad
Aryal (rep 31/12/2016)
12
hospitals in Nepal running without beds, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 30/12/2016)
Health
facilities told to register with MoH by Feb first week,
by Manish Gautam (kp 23/12/2016)
Another
11 hospitals to avail free kidney dialysis service
(rep 23/12/2016)
BP
Cancer
Hosp officials furnish clarifications: There were
complaints over financial irregularities,
management’s failure to effectively mobilise human
resources (kp 23/12/2016)
MoH
to set up 10 urban health promotion centres (kp
22/12/2016)
List
of free medicines not made public at hospitals, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 22/12/2016)
Ministry
seeks clarification from Bharatpur cancer hospital
(rep 22/12/2016)
Illegal
health centres apply for registration (ht
21/12/2016)
Tanahun
DHO purchases medicines after MoH failed to supply them
(ht 20/12/2016)
HOTC
ready for more liver transplant surgeries (ht
19/12/2016)
Hospitals
agree
to extend service from Dec 16: Thapa, by Manish
Gautam (kp 13/12/2016)
Over
60
pc clinics, labs in Valley illegal: MoH (ht
13/12/2016)
Bajura
health
facilities under acute drugs shortage (ht
13/12/2016)
No
paracetamol at govt hospitals in 14 districts: No iron
tablets in Nuwakot, Tanahun, Achham, Baitadi; Hospitals
in Siraha, Bara, Dhanusha, Achham without antibiotics,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 12/12/2016)
Kin
of
deceased vandalise Chitwan Medical College: The patient
had died due to eclampsia (ht 08/12/2016), Kin
receive
body of woman after a week (ht 12/12/2016)
Medical
equipment worth billions dumped by govt hospitals: Hefty
commissions suspected behind reluctance to repair,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 08/12/2016)
Reconstruction
of
health post buildings delayed, by Sudip Kaini (kp
07/12/2016)
Nepal
Eye
Hospital operation theatre renovated (ht 07/12/2016)
MoH
to
provide medical equipment to health centres (ht
07/12/2016)
Action
to
be taken against illegal health institutions (ht
03/12/2016)
Bir
Hospital
to have own pharmacy in a week, by Manish Gautam (kp
28/11/2016)
Many
health
facilities without buildings, by Nagendra Adhikari
(kp 28/11/2016)
Seti
Zonal
Hospital defying government directive (ht
26/11/2016)
Leaders
stage fast-unto-death for hospital's improvement, by
Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 26/11/2016), NSP
leader
Tiwari continues hunger strike for 11th day
(04/12/2016), Another
man on fast-unto-death seeking better health care for
poor, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 05/12/2016), Tiwari’s
hunger
strike get students’ backing (kp 07/12/2016),
NHRC
urges
govt to address fasting Tiwari’s concerns: Civil society
members seek immediate steps in view of his
deteriorating health condition (kp 08/12/2016), Tiwari’s
hunger
strike enters 16th day (kp 09/12/2016), Tiwari
signs
4-point deal with govt, ends fast (kp 11/12/2016)
TUTH
resident
doctors to skip OPD duties (kp 25/11/2016), Resident
docs
halt OPD services at TUTH (ht 26/11/2016), Hundreds
affected by residents' OPD boycott (ht 26/11/2016)
HOTC
conducts
first open heart surgery (ht 24/11/2016)
Doctors
defy
MoH orders: Say instruction to extend OPD services till
5pm is not possible in the present situation (kp
23/11/2016)
DPHO
Kaski
monitors 24 private health facilities (ht
22/11/2016)
Hospitals
told
to allocate beds for the poor (ht 20/11/2016)
Ministry
seals
seven ‘illegal’ clinics (kp 17/11/2016), Govt
seals 37 clinics in Valley in five days (rep
19/11/2016), 37
pharmacies
and clinics sealed in Valley (ht 20/11/2016)
Decision
to
send doctors to all health facilities not likely to
succeed (ht 14/11/2016), Services
affected
with doctors’ posts lying vacant (ht 16/11/2016)
Hospital
cabins for VVIPs unused, only few prefer treatment there,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 16/11/2016)
Lumbini
Zonal
Hospital gets neonatal intensive care unit (ht
05/11/2016)
Drugs
shortage
hits Parbat hospital (kp 31/10/2016)
Unmanaged
laboratories,
unhealthy practices: Loopholes in policy encourages
black marketers to play foul with public health, by
Sujata Awale (ht 30/10/2016)
Jajarkot
hospital
fails to provide quality health care to patients (ht
28/10/2016)
Name
plates
placed to keep tab on truant doctors in hospitals
(ht 27/10/2016), No
duty:
Strong departmental action must be taken against those
who flout the hospital rules and remain absent during
working hours (ht 28/10/2016)
Madhupatti
health
post running from VDC office (ht 27/10/2016)
No
OPD service after 3 pm despite govt directive, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 20/10/2016)
Networked
hospitals
don’t take emergency reporting seriously: The EWARS was
set up to improve the disease reporting mechanism so
that the EDCD could prioritise its planning and
intervention in case of a disease outbreak (kp
19/10/2016)
Minister
for
police hosp to admit public (kp 15/10/2016)
Hospitals
running
short of doctors, nurses, by Arjun Poudel (ht
15/10/2016)
Govt
hospitals
asked to open own pharmacies: Move aimed at making
medicines cheaper for patients (kp 14/10/2016)
Seti
Zonal
Hospital gets dialysis machine (ht 05/10/2016)
Tilganga
Eye
Hospital applies ‘Robin Hood’ effect to treat blind
people: The hospital charges more from rich patients to
cover the costs of those who cannot afford treatment,
by Arjun Poudel (ht 03/10/2016)
Primary
health
centre sans building since earthquake, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 01/10/2016)
Footage
showing
medics apologising draws criticism, by Manish Gautam
(ht 29/09/2016), Charikot
Hospital
shuts down emergency service as well, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 30/09/2016), Docs
leave Charikot after being forced apologize publicly,
by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 30/09/2016), Panel
begins
probes into hospital row (kp 01/10/2016), Charikot
Hosp
resumes emergency service: Home Ministry recalls
Assistant CDO Aulakh Bahadur Ale and DSP Rabin Karki to
Kathmandu (kp 02/10/2016)
NAMS
senate
decides to change name: Proposes Manmohan Memorial
National Academy of Medical Sciences, by Manish
Gautam (kp 25/09/2016), Manmohan
Institute
Bill withdrawn from House: NAMS senate decision to
change name approved, by Binod Ghimire (kp
30/09/2016)
Not
a
single doctor in Jogbudha Hospital (ht 21/09/2016)
Manpower
crunch
hits ICU services (ht 19/09/2016)
Teku
hospital
to begin ICU services soon (ht 18/09/2016)
Rs
1b
for rebuilding health facilities (kp 16/09/2016)
Poor
service
at Kanti concerns Minister Thapa (kp 14/09/2016)
Post-mortem
reports
in Dhading ‘unscientific’ (kp 13/09/2016)
Bitter
pills:
If politicians had to use public hospitals, they would
make efforts to improve them (kp 12/09/2016)
Medical
equipment
auctioned for trifling sum (ht 10/09/2016)
BP
Koirala
Memorial Cancer Hospital sans CT scan machine (ht
08/09/2016)
VVIP
rooms at Bir, TUTH empty while millions spent on
checkups abroad, by Arjun Poudel (rep 27/08/2016)
Health
facilities across the country without essential drugs,
by Arjun Poudel (rep 26/08/2016)
Manpower
crunch
hits Narayani sub-regional hospital in Birgunj (ht
18/08/2016)
Jha
pledges
to upgrade Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital (ht 15/08/2016)
90
of
724 quake-struck health facilities rebuilt: 103 health
facility buildings were damaged in Kavre, 90 in
Sindhupalchok, 89 in Kathmandu, 83 in Gorkha (kp
14/08/2016), 8
Dhading health posts receive pre-fab buildings (kp
14/08/2016)
Lack
of
infrastructure hits health service (ht 12/08/2016)
New
govt
sets easy targets: Postings in three months: Only 20 of
the 205 PHCCs are without doctors, by Manish Gautam
(kp 10/08/2016)
Private
hospitals do not share info: DPHO (rep 10/08/2016)
Madhupatti
health
post running from VDC office (ht 04/08/2016)
Situation
of
cancer hospital improving (ht 03/08/2016)
Tanahun
hospitals
overwhelmed by patients (ht 29/07/2016)
Bir
Hospital
gets genetic testing lab (ht 28/07/2016)
Bir
Hospital
to be relocated to Bhaktapur (kp 23/07/2016)
Health
post
at high risk of flood, landslide (ht 17/07/2016)
TUTH
tells
Dr KC to take his hunger strike elsewhere (kp
09/07/2016), Dr
KC’s
indefinite fast set to face ‘furious protest’: A group
of docs stands against him ‘at CIAA’s behest’, by
Manish Gautam (kp 10/07/2016)
Docs
raise serious questions over quality of hospital ICU,
by Arjun Poudel (rep 09/07/2016)
Patients
treated
on the floor of hospital (ht 08/07/2016)
District
hospital
gets solar plant: Alternative Energy Promotion Centre
has set up a 3,000-watt capacity solar electricity plant
for Bajhang District Hospital, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 04/07/2016)
Jogbudha
Hospital
in dire need of equipment, drugs (ht 25/06/2016)
Quake-hit
Trishuli
Hospital gets pre-fabricated building (kp
21/06/2016)
Cancer
hospital
in desperate need of more beds (ht 20/06/2016)
Siraha
hospital
mismanagement worries locals, by Mithilesh Yadav
(rep 15/06/2016)
Action
against
middlemen increases cancer hospital’s income (ht
13/06/2016)
Most
Chitwan
health facilities flouting government guidelines (ht
11/06/2016)
Western
regional
hospital infested with bed bugs, by Bharat Koirala
(ht 11/06/2016)
Burn
centre
receives modern equipment (ht 10/06/2016)
Seti
Zonal
Hospital facing drug crunch (ht 09/06/2016)
Baitadi
medicos
strike over attack on official (kp 08/06/2016)
Gorkha
District
Hospital in shambles: Patients suffer in lack of
specialists, pharmacy and electricity backup, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 06/06/2016)
Chitwan
DPHO
tightens noose on illegally run health facilities
(ht 05/06/2016)
Woman
accuses
hospital in Surkhet of rendering her blind (kp
02/06/2016)
Patients
forced
to opt for private clinics (ht 30/05/2016)
Sagarmatha
Zonal
hospital in sorry state (ht 19/05/2016)
District
hospital
without chief, lacks free medicines, by Madan Thakur
(rep 19/05/2016)
Humla
district
hospital appoints additional doctors (kp 18/05/2016)
Construction
companies
ignoring contracts to build health posts (ht
16/05/2016)
Bharatpur
Hospital
begins NICU (ht 12/05/2016)
Village
that
relies on witch doctor’s ‘cure’: The closest health post
from is a six hours walk from Gati VDC, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 04/05/2016)
Patience
with
patients: Nepal’s most state-of-the-art hospital is
reducing the number of patients going abroad for
treatment (nt 06/05/2016)
Community
hospitals
ineligible for grants: Lack of transparency in Valley
hospitals and political meddling force ministry to deny
funds (kp 01/05/2016)
Korea-Nepal
hospital
brings cardiology unit into operation (kp
29/04/2016)
40
health
facilities rebuilt so far, says Health ministry: The
ministry struggles to reconstruct 270 health posts that
were housed in rooms made available by the local
government (kp 26/04/2016)
Light
of
hope: TUTH’s disaster preparedness shows that the
government should initiate similar plans in all public
health facilities in the country, by Manish Gautam (kp
24/04/2016)
Injection
of
reality: Ailing condition of the government hospitals
should ring alarms bells (kp 22/04/2016)
Bir
Hospital
sets up emergency containers (rep 22/04/2016)
Cancer
hospital
gets equipment (ht 22/04/2016)
Poor
hospital
service affects cancer patients, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 20/04/2016)
Norvic
celebrates
23rd anniversary (ht 17/04/2016)
Narayani
hospital’s
OR without surgical lights: Doctors at the country’s
second oldest hospital performs surgeries under the light
of hand-held torch, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 14/04/2016)
Hospital
struggles
to treat patients from tents, by Arjun Poudel (rep
11/04/2016)
Time
for
change: To provide quality healthcare to patients, doctors
should be able to focus on clinical care, by Bikash
Gauchan and Ryan Schwarz (kp 10/04/2016)
Relatives
allege
negligence as patient dies in Rukum hospital (ht
09/04/2016)
Thori
health
post without essential medicines, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 09/04/2016)
Hospital
extends
service (kp 03/04/2016)
Bir
Hospital
to start DNA testing: First time in Nepal (rep
24/03/2016)
Mission
Hospital
gets its water from Bheri River (ht 24/03/2016)
Construction
of
at least six health facilities in limbo (ht
21/03/2016)
Absence
of
doctor in Mugu hospital threatens patients' life, by
Suman Malla (rep 19/03/2016)
Unable
to
pay bills, patient languishes in trauma centre with wife,
children, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 17/03/2016), Patient
rescued
from trauma centre (ht 21/03/2016)
Dedicated
power
line cut-off: NMA warns of health service disruption
(kp 13/03/2016), NMA
sees
red over power cuts in hospitals (ht 13/03/2016)
Lahan
hospital
selling unwanted newborn to childless women, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 10/03/2016)
699
health
facilities ‘rebuilt’ (kp 09/03/2016)
Construction
of
over half dozen health posts in limbo, by Janak KC
(rep 09/03/2016)
6,000
people
benefit from free medical service in Dolakha: The
centre, which is upgrading the current 30-bed facility
to 50 beds, plans to build a 450-bed hospital in the
future, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 08/03/2016)
Hospital
tense
over patient’s death in Jhapa (ht 08/03/2016)
District
hospital
in dilapidated state (ht 25/02/2016)
Health
facilities
in Banke, Baridya face drugs shortage, by Thakur
Singh Tharu and Kamal Panthi (kp 24/02/2016)
Government
starts
process to acquire Manmohan Institute: Medical college
may be turned into public entity as per new policy,
by Manish Gautam (kp 23/02/2016), Healthy
alternative:
Public pressure forces govt to transfer medical college
owned by MPs to state (kp 25/02/2016)
Dedicated
feeder
power supply in private hospitals to be cut off (ht
23/02/2016)
Hospitals
resume
services snubbing government notice: Last May, the
Health Ministry had directed private hospitals
and nursing homes to operate from their usual
station only after ascertaining safety of their building
(kp 21/02/2016)
Had
no
time to take Koirala to hospital: Dr Yogi (ht
12/02/2016), TUTH
phone
didn't respond even after dialing 13 times: Dr Yogi,
by Arjun Poudel (rep 12/02/2016), TUTH
orders
probe into phone not responding: About 50 percent of
hospital's phones do not work, by Arjun Poudel (rep
13/012/2016)
Experts
flay
bill on Manmohan Adhikari academy (ht 07/02/2016)
Shortage
of
health workers hits Humla health centres hard (ht
07/02/2017)
Koshi
Hospital
starts cancer treatment with a major component missing,
by Binod Subedi (rep 01/02/2016)
MPs
to
deliberate law on institute with their stakes:
Parliament has sent Manmohan Academy Bill to its
committee where influential CPN-UML leaders with stakes
in the proposed academy are the members, by Manish
Gautam (kp 24/01/2016), Public
campaign
launched against government move (kp 25/01/2016), Civil
society
members decry bill (kp 28/01/2016)
Govt
struggles
to relocate damaged health facilities: Land acquisition
problem halts the reconstruction of health
facilities which are first point of care at the
community level (kp 21/01/2016)
Bharatpur
Hospital
preparing to add 165 additional beds, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 20/01/2016)
Darchula,
Parbat
reel under medicine crisis, by Manoj Badu (kp
18/01/2016)
Govt
targets
to restore at least 446 health facilities in 6 months:
Rs6.5b, out of health sector’s Rs14.7b need, to be
immediately available (kp 17/01/2016)
Power-starved
hospital
treats patients by candlelight, by Janak KC (rep
16/01/2016)
Bir
cancer
patients deprived of radiotherapy (rep 15/01/2016)
Drug
shortage
in hospital (kp 08/01/2016) [related to Jajarkot]
Man
Mohan
Hospital row: CPN-UML in bid to bend the rules, by
Manish Gautam (kp 30/12/2015), Experts
flay
govt move on Manmohan hospital, by Manish Gautam (kp
31/12/2015), MPs
call
for making hospital state entity: Register amendments,
seek to change the name, by Binod Ghimire (kp
02/01/2016), Koirala
govt
‘breached trust’, by Manish Gautam (kp 07/01/2016)
UNICEF
to
restore health facilities in quake-hit areas (ht
25/12/2015)
Fire
destroys
Jumla hospital building, by LP Devkota (kp
20/12/2015)
Saptari
hospitals
closed for last 20 days, patients hit (kp
12/12/2015)
Rs
1.5
billion earmarked for rebuilding health facilities
(kp 08/12/2015)
Crisis
forces
hospitals to cut down services (ht 25/11/2015)
Free
bus
service to hospitals on cards: Move is expected to give
patients some respite, by Anup Ojha (kp 18/11/2015)
Shortage
of
supplies: Hospitals forced to cut down surgeries, by
Manish Gautam (kp 17/11/2015), Gangalal
to
cut down number of surgeries, by Arjun Poudel (rep
17/11/2015)
Drug
shortage
hits Rautahat hospital (ht 11/12/2015)
Drug
shortage
hits hospitals (ht 06/11/2015)
Seti
Zonal
Hospital yet to start ICU services, by Tekendra
Deuba (ht 02/11/2015)
TUTH
gets
new cold room (kp 30/10/2015), Body
storage
capacity of DoFM increased (ht 01/11/2015)
Fuel
blockade
hits Valley hospitals hard, by Arjun Poudel (rep
30/10/2015)
Hospital
lacks
doctors, nurses, by Prakash Baral (kp 18/10/2015)
Fuel,
medicine
shortage paralyses Valley hospitals: NMA president says
if the shortage persists for another week, hospitals may
be shut (ht 09/10/2015)
OPD
services
shut at TUTH: A doctor says they will be compelled to stop
working completely if the government does not heed their
demands (kp 27/09/2015)
Hospital
grappling
with bed-medicine-crunch (ht 24/09/2015)
Amda-Mechi
reopens
after two years: Hospital Management Committee chief says
they resumed services after donors agreed to provide aid
for the next six months, by Parbat Portel (kp
14/09/2015)
Pokhara
regional
hospital without CT scan machine (ht 12/09/2015)
Kavre
health
centres face acute water crunch (ht 05/09/2015)
Chitwan
hospitals
not renewing their licences (ht 13/08/2015)
Lack
of
pharmacy at hospital hits patients, by Keshavsharan
Lamichhane (rep 11/08/2015)
Narayani
hospital
in shortage of docs: Patients are compelled to go to
private hospitals and clinics since the government has not
been able to hire new doctors, by Shankar Acharya (kp
02/08/2015)
Modern
eye
hospital, centre in Kirtipur (ht 01/08/2015)
Bharatpur
Hospital
struggling to manage cadavers (ht 28/07/2015)
Rautahat
Hospital
sans doctor for week (ht 24/07/2015)
Kanti starts child and adolescent mental health OPD
(ht 23/07/2015)
Kolti
Primary
health centre sans doctor: Both medical practioners there
were transferred elsewhere (ht 17/07/2015)
Women compelled to get treatment on hospital floor, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 12/07/2015)
Free
medicines
found on sale at private clinics (rep 11/07/2015)
Hospital
hard
put with surge in patient flow (ht 09/07/2015)
Kolti
Health
Post under threat (ht 07/07/2015)
Zonal
hospital
grapples with dearth of vaccine, by Mohan Budhair (kp
06/07/2015)
Police
get
mobile hospital (kp 02/07/2015)
Donors
favor
construction of prefab health facilities (rep
02/07/2015)
ART
centre
established in Okhaldhunga (ht 02/07/2015)
Hospitals
running
in commercial spaces, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
01/07/2015)
Nobel
Medical
College shut indefinitely (kp 29/06/2015)
‘Ensure
hospitals
run own pharmacies’, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
29/06/2015)
Poor
construction
led to severe damage to Chautara Hospital: British experts
(kp 21/06/2015)
Engineers
to
estimate cost of hospital repairs (ht 20/06/2015)
Water
crisis
in Jogbudha Hospital (ht 20/06/2015)
Patients
suffer
as Gorkha district hospital operates from tents, by
Narhari Sapkota (rep 17/06/2015)
Bharatpur
Cancer
Hospital in dire straits, by Tilak Ram Rimal (ht
12/06/2015)
Ne-Koryo
Hospital
in Damauli picketed after patient’s death (ht
10/06/2015)
Hospital
serves
patients under tents, by Sudip Kaini (kp 08/06/2015)
Huge
flow
of earthquake patients causes financial burden to
Bharatpur hospital, by Pawan Yadav (kp 04/06/2015)
Autopsies
conducted
in the open in Bajura (ht 03/06/2015)
Bharatpur
Hospital
in financial crisis (ht 02/06/2015)
Construction
of
health posts in limbo: The sub-contractors have been at
large (ht 02/06/2015)
Trishuli
Hospital
providing treatment under tents, by Prakash Adhikari
(kp 01/06/2015)
Ramechhap
health
facilities in ruins: Most of them providing services from
makeshift tents (ht 30/05/2015)
When
it
rains, it pours: The monsoon will compound post-earthquake
health problems as families cope with infections, by
Sonia Awale (nt 29/05/2015)
Quake
victims
turned away by private hospitals: MoHP urges them to visit
government health facilities, by Arjun Poudel (rep
29/05/2015)
35
health
facilities in Kavre in ruins (ht 27/05/2015)
Private
hospitals
fleecing earthquake victims, by Arjun Poudel (rep
25/05/2015)
Bhaktapur
Hospital
operating from tents (ht 21/05/2015)
Second
major
earthquake keeps medical staff, patients outdoors
(kp 18/05/2015)
Hospitals
told
to verify building safety before resuming services (ht
17/05/2015)
Friends
in
need: Teaching Hospital was able to function efficiently
after the quake with the help of many others, by
Deepak Prakash Mahara and Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 17/05/2015)
Bir
Hospital’s
patients moved to trauma centre (ht 14/05/2015)
Services
resume
at maternity hospital, by Pratichya Dulal (kp
10/05/2015)
Kirtipur
Hospital
ailing for want of medical supplies, by Som Nath
Ghimire (ht 07/05/2015)
Expired
medicines
at Salyan health facilities (kp 25/04/2015)
Seti
Zonal
Hospital’s ICU to come into operation by June (ht
25/04/2015)
Flow
of
patients to Bheri hospital on the rise, by Arjun Oli
(rep 25/04/2015)
Staffers
using
umbrellas to protect medicine (ht 20/04/2015)
Rolpa
hospital
lacks blood bank, by Kashiram Dangi (kp 19/04/2015)
Encroachment
of
hospital land goes unchecked, by Amrita Anamol (kp
16/04/2015)
Garbage
surrounds
Chitwan's biggest hospital, by Chandni Hamal (rep
15/04/2015)
KMC
run
clinics lack basic medicines, by Arjun Poudel (rep
14/04/2015)
Grande’s
‘Health
for All’ project (kp 29/03/2015)
Unmanaged
waste
makes hospital reek (ht 28/03/2015)
Patients
suffer
as resident doctors shun work at TUTH (rep 28/03/2015)
Political
interference
puts Bheri hospital in fix, by Janak Nepal (kp
26/03/2015)
Hospital
canteens
found selling substandard food, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
26/03/2015)
District
hospital
left without water, by Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep
24/03/2015)
Truancy
hits
med care in Jhule VDC, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
13/03/2015)
Burn
victim
suffers owing to poorly-equipped rural hospital, by
Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 09/03/2015)
Bhaktapur
Cancer
Hospital adds new ward (kp 08/03/2015)
Regional
leprosy
clinic closed; patients hit hard (ht 06/03/2015)
Dahal
inaugurates
700-bed hospital in Birtamod (kp 03/03/2015)
Health
post
ailing for want of resources, by Byas Shankar
Upadhyaya (ht 28/02/2015)
Panel
to
probe death at Bheri Zonal Hospital (ht 26/02/2015)
BP
Koirala
Memorial Cancer Hospital in dire straits (ht
23/02/2015)
City
with
hotels, casinos lacks a decent hospital, by Parbat
Portel (kp 17/02/2015) [on Kakarvitta]
No
takers
for Bir’s VVIP, VIP wards: Threat of facility turning into
white elephant looms (ht 12/02/2015)
Eye
hospital
provides free surgery to 60,000 in a year, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 12/02/2015)
Senior
citizens
get discounted service at BPKHIS, by Rohit Rai (rep
12/02/2015)
Bir
Hospital
to start services at Trauma Centre from today, by
Manish Gautam (kp 11/02/2015)
Hospital
in
Rolpa turning into death trap, by Devendra Basnet and
Hira Bahadur Khatri (rep 11/02/2015)
Bir
Hospital
to start genetic lab this fiscal (ht 09/02/2015)
China-gifted
mobile
hospital given to cooperative, by Arjun Poudel (rep
09/02/2015)
Man
seeks
justice after wife dies: Says noone was present at health
post when services needed (ht 07/201/2015)
BP
cancer
hospital ailed by political meddling, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 04/02/2015)
Trauma
Center
in a fix, by Arjun Poudel (rep 04/01/2015)
Bir
Hospital
to house genetic lab, by Manish Gautam (kp 02/02/2015)
Patients
hit
hard as CT Scan goes kaput: Cancer hospital says can’t
afford a new machine (ht 01/02/2015)
Public
deprived
of service at National Trauma Centre (ht 26/01/2015)
Pvt
pharmacies
at Bir fleecing patients, by Arjun Poudel (rep
26/01/2015)
Bharatpur
Hospital
to run MD, MS courses, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
24/01/2015)
Surgeries
postponed
at Bir due to strike: All hospitals see fewer patients
than usual (rep 14/01/2015)
Govt
adds
health posts, workers: Cabinet endorses Health Ministry’s
plan to upgrade 2,052 sub-health posts as health posts and
create 7,400 posts for staffers (kp 10/01/2015)
Apex
court
stays govt decision to operate National Trauma Centre
under NAMS (ht 09/01/2015)
Patients
suffer
as senior health personnel continue protest, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 05/01/2015)
Confusion
looms
over operation of Civil Hospital: Govt has been asked to
run it under MoHP (ht 02/01/2015)
Quality
of
health facilities stressed (ht 02/01/2015)
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