Booster dose campaign for children aged 12-17 affected due to insufficient funds in Nepal
Two weeks back booster shots were announced by the Ministry of Health and Population for children between the age of 12 to 17-year-old, but most districts have not started vaccinating due to budget limitations. District health workers say they can’t afford the booster dose campaign. Krishna Bahadur Mijar, chief of...
Read moreCOVAX donates 2.2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal
The UN-backed facility has committed 8.4 million vaccine doses. Dr. Surendra Chaurasia, head of the Department of Health Services’ Logistic Management Section, said they received vaccine doses from COVAX today. The Health Ministry will start vaccinating 5-11-year-olds on June 23. First, 27 districts will be vaccinated, then the remaining 50....
Read moreKathmandu hospitalizes monkeypox suspect
A 26-year-old man was admitted Thursday with monkeypox symptoms. The hospital spokesperson informed that a Nepali citizen was hospitalized by the airport health workers. The man has fever and rashes for a week. Hospital director Dr. Manisha Rawal said, “We’ve isolated him and started free treatment.” “The Health Ministry will conduct...
Read moreKathmandu’s water is tested for disease-causing microbes
Epidemiology and Disease Control Division is testing water samples from Kathmandu amid rising diarrhea cases. Public health inspector Kaushal Subedi said the division will obtain water samples from 150 Valley locations. Distributors, bottling plants, taps, and homes will provide water samples. We’ll also study whether various bottled water brands are...
Read moreMaternal mortality rate continues to remain high in Banke, Nepal
The maternal death rate in Banke has not dropped despite the government investing billions of rupees in maternal safety measures. According to the District Public Health Office, 14 women died in the first six months of the current fiscal year 2021-22, compared to 35 deaths in each of the...
Read moreNational ethical guidelines for health research in Nepal have been issued
The National Health Research Council, which is part of the Ministry of Health and Population, has released the National Ethical Guidelines for Health Research, 2022, to address the issues that health research faces and improve its effectiveness. One of the standards’ requirements is that the informed consent process in...
Read morePfizer will roll out COVID-19 vaccine doses for children in Nepal on June 23
Two million Nepalese children aged 5–11 years will be vaccinated in the first phase following the roll-out of Pfizer’s vaccines. On June 23, the Ministry of Health and Population will begin dispensing Pfizer’s COVID vaccine to children between five and 11 years old, although exact supply dates are not...
Read more16 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in Nepal on Wednesday
In Nepal, sixteen new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Wednesday. These reports increased the country’s average daily COVID-19 rate of active and spreading cases. The Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal discovered that a total of 2,121 swab samples were examined using RT-PCR, with 10 of those samples...
Read more28 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Nepal
Nepal has reported seven new PCR-confirmed coronavirus cases in the last twenty-four hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country to 979,213. The virus was found in 21 out of 1,256 patients, according to the Ministry of Health. Nepal had performed 5,719,524 PCR tests and 1,203,485 antigen...
Read moreInternational tourism begins to pick up momentum for Nepal after COVID-19 pandemic
Nepal has had more visitors since January than it would receive for the entire year of 2021. The Nepal Tourism Board estimates that roughly 150 000 foreign visitors will visit Nepal in 2021. (NTB). In May 2022, the NTB received 53,608 visitors. Arrivals, on the other hand, have dropped...
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