Bajura : Food crisis has deepened in Bajura district owing to contractor’s sheer ignorance in the supply of rice. Himali rural municipality of the district has come across the crisis. Though the contractors had signed agreement to supply rice some six months ago, it has not been put into...
Health
Kathmandu : The World Tuberculosis Day is being marked around the theme – ‘It’s time’, across the globe, including in Nepal, amidst various programmes today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the theme this year puts the accent on the urgency to act on the commitments...
Dang : Chief Minister of State-5, Shankar Pokhrel, has said that number of kidney patients has been increasing due to the sedentary lifestyle of people in recent period. At a programme organised by Health Division of Tulasipur Sub-Metropolitan City here today on the occasion of World Kidney Day...
Lalitpur : The Megha Hospital based in Dhobighat-3, Sanepa of Lalitpur has given 50 percent discount in the treatment for senior citizens, persons with physical disabilities, single women, orphans, national players and the mentally challenged.
The patients falling under the above mentioned...
Kathmandu : A team of Interventional Radiology at Grande International Hospital has successfully performed cerebral aneurysm coiling on 21st February, 2019. The medical team led by Dr. Subash Phuyal performed the highly demanding procedure on a 60-year-old woman from Lamjung. After complaining of...
Kathmand : People with high blood pressure and diabetics have been suggested regular health checkups every three months as their optic nerve is relatively narrower than that of others. Ophthalmologists from the Nepal Eye Hospital, Tripureshwor said if such people missed the regular checkup, they...
Kathmandu : Annually, some 3,000 leprosy patients are found in Nepal despite the completion of a decade since the government announced the elimination of disease. Today, leprosy is curable unlike of the past. Delay in treatment or in case of absence of treatment, it may or cause significant...
Kathmandu : More than half million people died of tuberculosis in the SAARC countries in 2017. As many as 380 million people suffered from the disease while only 250 people received treatment. Director at SAARC Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Centre, Dr Rajendra Pant, said 1.8 million people died of...
Dang : Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara has said the National Medical Education Bill endorsed by the House in a due process should not be made the agenda of protest. Talking to media persons briefly at Tarigaun Airport in Dang today, the Speaker was of the view that none was expected to make the...
Baitadi : The provision of monetary allowance for a woman delivering a child at the health facility has been in force for years in the country. Such woman is expected to get the allowance immediately after the child birth. Presently, the scheme aims to promote safe motherhood programme, and under...
