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Nepal’s emergency services must be adequately staffed, equipped and integrated to save lives
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Nepalis are not dying on the country’s highways, they are being killed
Dying to travel
Ninety-four people lost their lives in air crashes in the past 12 months, but the number of people killed on Nepal’s roads was 30 times higher
Deadly Dasain on Nepal’s highways
Photos: ACHYUTRAJ BHANDARIThe death toll in a bus plunge in Mugu has reached 32. Twenty-four people died on the spot and eight more during…
Nepal’s other pandemic: road fatalities
More people die on Nepal's highways every year than in all natural disasters combined
How Covid-19 saves lives in Nepal
FISHING OUT: Armymen try to pull out the bus that fell into the Madi River in Tanahu in 2013. Photo: PAWAN PAUDELThe Covid-19 crisis has…
When panic goes viral
Nepali students on their way to the quarantine centre in Bhaktapur after landing in Kathmandu Airport on Sunday morning. Photo: RSSThe global…
Injured use Internet to get rehab care
Photo : MONIKA DEUPALALast November, a speeding bus in Argakanchi lost control and tumbled down a mountain, killing 19 and injuring 18…
It’s an emergency: Nepal needs to improve trauma care
Photo: NATIONAL TRAUMA CENTRESpeeding along a narrow winding mountain road in Dhading, a heavily intoxicated truck driver lost control of the…
Waiting till the cows come home
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West…
Nepal’s deadly roads take their toll
Photos: BIKRAM RAIAt least seven people were killed when a bus heading to Narayangad from Beni lost control and fell 70m from the road down to…
Reckless fecklessness
Kunda DixitA drain in the middle of the road outside the gates of a school in Kirtipur had its concrete slabs removed for maintenance six months…