Talks
held on Bir Hospital
construction in
Bhaktapur (kh
19/09/2024)
Licences
of hundreds of
health facilities in
Bagmati Province not
renewed for two
years : Investors
complain they are
deprived of
importing equipment,
taking loans from
banks and accessing
other services due
to the apathy of
authorities
concerned to renew
licences (kp
18/09/2024)
Burn
ward at Bir Hospital
to begin
full-fledged
operations next week
(rep 16/09/2024)
Narayani
Hospital grapples
with staff shortages
: Hospital services
cut back for want of
enough personnel,
cancer treatment
centre delayed,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp
07/09/2024)
Sankhuwasabha
District Hospital
overwhelmed : The
50-bed hospital is
overcrowded with the
patients mostly
having symptoms of
fever and diarrhoea,
by Dipendra Shakya (kp
03/09/2024)
1300
renal transplants
conducted in Shahid
Dharmabhakta
National Transplant
Center (rn
29/08/2024)
Dhulikhel
Hospital launches
new training to
boost staff
communication and
behaviour :
Officials hope
improved
communication skills
will reduce
conflicts with
patients and their
visitors, by
Arjun Poudel (kp
12/08/2024)
Bharatpur
Cancer Hospital to
expand services
nationwide (kh
11/08/2024)
Ethical
Dilemmas in Mugu
District Hospital: A
Cry for Support,
by Animesh Ghimire
(rep 12/07/2024)
KMC
arranges 374 beds
for helpless at 52
hospitals (kh
04/06/2024)
Special
committee formed to study problems in government
hospitals (rep 01/06/2024)
Four
years on, basic hospitals in Achham villages
remain unfinished . Hospital construction was
started in 396 local units across the country
with a target to complete them in two years,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 28/05/2024)
Hastily
launched ill-equipped Shailaja Acharya Cardiac
Centre turns back patients : The centre refers
5-8 daily visitors needing hospitalisation to
other Biratnagar hospitals due to shortage of
doctors, equipment, by Binod Bhandari (kp
24/05/2024)
Blood
bank established at Bharatpur Hospital (kh
15/05/2024)
Government propels healthcare
access with two-shift OPD services in major
hospitals (kh 14/05/2024)
Five-bed
municipal hospital set up in Jalpa (kh
09/05/2024)
Health
institutions lack required doctors and nurses,
by Nayak Paudel (rn 14/04/2024)
A
third of beds at Bir Hospital gone due to staff
shortage : Poor patients visiting the country’s
oldest hospital from across Nepal are the
hardest hit, by Arjun Poudel (kp
08/04/2024), What
were they thinking? The budget cut has had a
devastating impact on Bir Hospital, much to the
dismay of poor patients (kp 10/04/2024)
Rapti
Academy of Health Sciences mulls stopping
services to government-insured patients : The
Dang-based hospital considers serious steps over
prolonged delay by Health Insurance Board to
make reimbursements, by Durgalal KC (kp)
Paying
service lessens surgical wait list at Paropakar
Maternity Hospital : Patients who had to wait
for a year for routine services in the past can
now seek care within a week by paying nearly
double under the paying service, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 31/03/2024)
Health
Minister Yadav directs Kanti Children Hospital
to ensure that none of the patients visiting
hospital are denied treatment (rep
28/03/2024)
Plan
to upgrade health centre to hospital brings joy
among Burtibang residents : The upgrade will
directly benefit people of Dhorpatan
Municipality and two other local units, by
Prakash Baral [kp 04/03/2024)
Progress
accelerates for infectious disease research
centre establishment in Tikapur (kh
29/02/2024)
Mahakali provincial hospital
offers pediatric cancer and hematology service
(rn 28/02/2024)
KMC
stops collecting waste from four hospitals
(kh 26/02/2024)
Ministry
of Labor suspends medical test permission of 70
health institutes (kh 25/02/2024)
Bir
Hospital halts surgeries due to shortage of
essential materials, by Pabitra Sunar )kp
12/02/2024)
Post-natal
care ward inaugurated at Narayani Hospital
(kh 11/02/2024)
Narayani
Hospital sees a 23% increase in patient flow
(rep 10/02/2024)
Human
Organ Transplant Centre marks milestone: 1,200
successful kidney transplants in 11 years
(kh 02/02/2024)
Construction
of basic hospitals left incomplete in Salyan
district : The ambitious plan has faced
construction delays triggered by budget crunch,
by Biplab Maharjan (kp 21/01/2024)
SC
issues interim order not to stop Bir Hospital’s
food and other expenses (rep 20/01/2024)
Doctors
working in Jajarkot Hospital to be given an
additional allowance of one lakh rupees per
month (kh 18/01/2024)
Hospitals
to procure suits to curb delivery bleeding :
Health offices will get Rs300,000 each to buy
the suits that prevent excessive bleeding in
women after childbirth, by Arjun Poudel (kp
08/01/2024)
Spinal
Trauma Center comes into operation in
Birtamod (kh 01/01/2024)
Bir
Hospital grappling with severe financial
crisis (rep 31/12/2023)
Civil
Service Hospital’s employees under
contract stage demonstration (with
photos) (rep 28/12/2023)
Oxygen
supplier warns Bir Hospital over unpaid
dues for supply, by Pabitra Sunar
(rep 28/12/2023)
Financial
Crisis Grips Nepal’s Private Hospitals,
by Pawan Mudbhari (kh 25/12/2023)
Landslide-hit
health post in dire need of new building
: Everyone from the health workers to
service seekers visiting the Dogadi
Health Post in Khaptad Chhededaha Rural
Municipality is at risk of landslides,
by Basant Pratap Singh (kp 23/12/2023)
Hetauda
hospital begins regular kidney dialysis
service (rep 23/12/2023)
Government
decides to upgrade 10 hospitals in
Bagmati Province (kh 20/12/2023)
National
Brain Tumor Center established at Bir
Hospital (kh 16/12/2023)
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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