Tag: #cancer
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Cycling to combat cancer
Cancer survivors and healthcare workers bicycle across Nepal to raise funds for patients needing treatment
Beware of spurious cancer drugs
Manufacturers are diluting anti-cancer medicines, affecting patients in countries like Nepal
Art for a cause
The art festival was inagurated by noted Nepali actor Rajesh Hamal (second from right). Also pictured, general manager of Turkish Airlines…
Polluted politics
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEAlong with poor quality of education, unaffordable healthcare, lack of safe drinking water, crumbling infrastructure,…
Nepal’s other pandemic: cancer
Uma Kumari Sah with her grandmother.It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy…
Living with cancer during the coronavirus
It hit me like a shock wave. The world stopped, leaving me completely alone and lost.It was the morning of the 15 June, 2017. “Your liver has…
Air pollution is more dangerous than smoking
Despite public awareness and relentless media coverage, Kathmandu’s air quality has worsened in the past two years. But public outrage does not…
Bad Air
Pic: MONICA DEUPALAA public perception survey among Kathmandu Valley residents conducted last year shows near unanimous agreement that pollution…
Green sticker = green light to pollute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Sv3a2LjxoVehicle owners in Kathmandu need to pass an annual emission test, but many just buy Green Stickers…
Solution to pollution
Air quality across Nepal has been deteriorating over the years. The average PM2.5 (concentration of particles smaller than 2.5 microns) in…
One Atmosphere
When we reduce air pollution, we reduce the impact of climate change
Toxic bubble
Pic: BIKRAM RAIKathmandu is the centre of everything in Nepal: power, administration, public education, tourism, hospitals. Till the late 1970s,…
How to clean up Kathmandu’s air
We just need the political will to push solutions through
#BeatAirPollution
Pic: BIKRAM RAIThe theme of World Environment Day 2019 on Wednesday 5 June is air pollution, and how to reduce it. This is not just a health…
Manisha Koirala’s new life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4g5rSiWEhMShe was just 19 when she starred in her first movie in Bollywood. As a fresh face from the mountains…