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A healthier, wealthier Nepal
Working models for public-private partnership can fill the gap left by government in delivering universal health care
More equal than others
Nepal is lagging behind in meeting 2030 targets on eliminating hunger and reducing inequality
Emergencies in Nepal's Emergency Rooms
Hospitals across Nepal need to urgently upgrade their ERs to prepare for disasters and for urgent treatment
Saving to save my sister
This is the 16th instalment of Diaspora Diaries, a regular series in Nepali Times with stories of Nepalis living and working abroad. I grew up…
Preparing to prepare for monkeypox
Monkeypox cases are increasing worldwide and now with India seeing more infections, public health experts have warned that Nepal needs to be…
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…
Sick of it
Belamati Nepali of West Rukum was diagnosed with intestinal cancer and underwent surgery in Lalitpur. Her husband Khadke sold the family…
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…
Health insurance must be an election agenda
Nepal’s health insurance program is due for urgent reform, or it risks being obsolete
Treating an epidemic of epilepsy in Nepal
PHOTO: SONIA AWALEIt had been three months into Sonam’s marriage that a slight trembling in her hand started. At first, she blamed it on the…
Pandemic eclipses Nepal's TB epidemic
Tuberculosis kills many more Nepalis than Covid-19, but prevention, early diagnosis and treatment will save lives
Going under the scalpel in Nepal
Nepal's first female facial plastic surgeon demystifies the beauty procedure and recommends caution
Omicron is coming to Nepal, be prepared
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
Covid derails child development in Nepal
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJ/HIMALMEDIAThe Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali…
Talking about life after menopause
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAfter watching the Netflix drama Bombay Begums recently, I was encouraged to see that mainstream cinema has started giving…
Too fat or too thin, but never quite right
Women get body-shamed no matter how much they weigh, should not let others deter from healthy living
Ncell awarded for its health project
N cell Axiata Ltd. has been awarded WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards 2021 and ASOCIO Awards 2021 for its telemedicine and health informatics…
Toilet-trained in Nepal
Newly constructed public toilet in Patan Dhoka is being inagurated on 19 November, World Toilet Day. Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe tactile pavement…
Tobacco use in South-East Asia declines
South-East Asia has achieved the fastest rate of decline in tobacco use among any other region in the world in 20 years, sustaining tobacco…
Nepal’s UN Policewoman of the Year
Nepal’s Sangya Malla has been announced Woman Police Officer of the Year 2021 by the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. Malla is…
Medicine goes back to its roots
Photo: CREATIVE COMMONSNearly two years after the global Covid-19 pandemic began, there has been a revival of traditional Ayurveda medicines…
The good doctor
The newly developed ayurvedic 'centre of excellence' is nestled beneath the forests of Nagarjun, just half an hour from Kathmandu. The centre is…
The business of politics in Nepal
Illustration: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe cause of prolonged political paralysis in Nepal is cronyism, and the only way to uproot it is by tackling…
Nepal has no health minister as Covid-19 cases rise again
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba waits for his turn at a J&J vaccination centre in Kathmandu. Photo: PMODuring his address to Parliament on 18…