Health Brief

Kathmandu — World No Tobacco Day, observed each year on May 31, has this year again warned specifically about the growing impact of new nicotine pr...

14 Baishakh, Saptari. The birthing center built in Kachan village of Bodebarsain Municipality-8, Saptari, has been left incomplete and idle for fou...

The 15-bed hospital building under construction in Raskot Municipality–5, Kumalkot, has been unfinished for five and a half years, and locals are f...

11 Baisakh, Kathmandu. The federal government had decided in 2077 BS to build 659 basic hospitals in local units that had no hospital, but of the s...

10 Jestha, Dolpa — The X‑ray machine purchased by Tripurasundari Municipality in Chaitra 2077 (Nepali calendar) has still not been put into operati...

Budhanilkantha: The newly constructed west wing of the Kathmandu Institute of Child Health (KIOCH) children’s hospital was handed over today. "We b...

Jhapa: Doctors, public‑health workers and consumer‑rights groups have expressed serious concern that non‑iodized salt is being openly sold and dist...

Quarterly routine health check-ups that were once easy to get are no longer readily accessible. When illnesses were serious, volunteers used to acc...

Battling hunger and a night of vomiting, Umesh Bikram (name changed) sat worried early in the morning with his small, living child on the bed. He s...

Kathmandu. In the darkness of night, the face of 17-year-old Sanu Magar — flown by helicopter from a mountainous village in Karnali — showed both r...

Dust-covered cath labs and teletherapy machines sit quiet in the corners of warehouses—equipment that should have given dozens of patients a lifeli...

31 Vaishakh, Siraha — The CT scan machine installed at the Ramkumar Sarada Umaprasad Murarka Provincial Hospital in Lahan has not been put into ope...

Five people have been arrested in the investigation into the embezzlement of funds from the Basic Health Service Hospital under Shivraj Municipalit...