Tag: #access to health facilities
Articles tagged with #access to health facilities
Midwives to the rescue in Nepal
The government needs to invest in training more midwives to save the lives of mothers and their babies
Balancing life and death in Nepal
Bhavana with her young son. Photo: RITA ALE MAGARIt was a night that Rita Ale Magar says she will never forget. Bhavana, 17, from remote Dumre…
"Nepalis are dying because they are poor”
Govinda KC, Nepal’s crusading surgeon and health activist, plastering a patient’s ankle at the Mugu District Hospital on Sunday. He saw 177…
Taking wealth out of health
Charikot Hospital. Photo: NYAYA HEALTH NEPALNepal’s medical industrial complex has modernised healthcare in the country, but it has also pushed…
Nepal’s uneven Covid-19 deaths
The Covid-19 pandemic has now killed more people than the devastating 2015 earthquake. Officially, over 9,700 Nepalis have died due to the…
Environmental destruction is a medical emergency
Photo: PRAKASH SINGHLast month Kalpana BK delivered a healthy newborn baby on the way to Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, but her placenta did not…