Nepal News News Nepal » Health: Nepal, UN launch three-year programme to expand mental health services
The Government of Nepal and the United Nations on Wednesday launched a three-year joint programme to strengthen the country's mental health system and expand access to mental health and psychosocial ...
News Nepal » Health: Nepal Health Alert: From Liver Diseases To CVD - 5 Most Dangerous Diseases Looming In Nepal
The current population of Nepal is 29,694,614 as of 2023, and it is expected to increase by 17% to 34,642,027 by 2050. Nepal's poverty reduction story over the last 30 years is nothing short of ...
News Nepal » Health: Factors associated with utilisation of antenatal care visit services in Nepal: evidence from Demographic and Health Survey 2016–2022
Objective Antenatal care (ANC) visits play a vital role in protecting women’s health and their unborn babies. This study aimed to examine the associated factors with utilisation of ANC visits by using ...
News Nepal » Health: Overview of Delivery of Cancer Care in Nepal: Current Status and Future Priorities
Nepal is a small, low-income country between India and China with a unique health care delivery system. Cancer is becoming an important public health problem in the country, but a systematic plan to ...
News Nepal » Health: Nepal's health insurance program: Challenges and early impacts
Nepal's National Health Insurance Program (NHIP), started in 2016, set out to improve access to health care and protect citizens from high medical costs. However, the program has struggled with low ...
News Nepal » Health: Nepal has lessons to teach on TB
The rain came down so hard that the man in a centre of a tiny room in a slum here couldn't be heard. It pounded on the tin roof. Outside, puddles became ponds, and groups of boys, their hair matted ...
News Nepal » Health: Nepal health workers at risk of workplace hazards
A 25-year-old female nurse employed at a private hospital in Nepal has been experiencing back pain and shooting aches. She is exposed to viruses, fungi, and organic dust at work, and has developed ...
News Nepal » Health: In Nepal, Health Insurance For All
How to pay for, regulate, and address inequities in access to health care remains a fundamental challenge to countries around the globe. New and disruptive medical technologies, mass migration, ...
News Nepal » Health: This is how to upgrade Nepal's rural health
Deukali Shahi, 26, looks relieved after delivering a healthy baby girl, but her calmness belies her traumatic childbirth. Her eyes fill with tears as she speaks haltingly of the previous baby she lost ...
News Nepal » Health: Nepal Verified for Rubella Elimination by WHO
Kathmandu: The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Nepal has eliminated rubella as a public health problem, marking a major milestone in the country’s fight against vaccine-preventable ...