The Nepal Aushadhi Limited has started manufacturing additional three genres of drugs beginning today.
The government has identified 21 districts sharing borders with India and three districts within the Kathmandu Valley as highly vulnerable zones for measles-rubella infection. The vaccination campaign aims to administer an additional dose of the vaccine to children aged nine months to 15 years in these districts, while children aged nine months to five years will be covered in 51 districts nationwide.
A national gathering of children living with HIV/AIDS has called on the government to include them in the Social Security Programme (SSP). The gathering, held a few days ago in the federal capital, concluded with the issuance of the Kathmandu Declaration, advocating for their inclusion in the SSP.
Dr Ankur Shah has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the Madhes Institute of Health Sciences (MIHS).
The telemedicine service has been started in a health post at Simkot Rural Municipality-7. The health post has started the service from Thursday to provide services from consultants.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population, Upendra Yadav, has encouraged the general public to donate organs posthumously.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population, Upendra Yadav, has said Nepal's health sector has been significantly affected by the consequences of climate change. Nepal's health sector is at grave risk due to the impact of climate change and this is a challenging issue for the country, according to him.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread more aggressively than ever before in wild birds and marine mammals since arriving in South America in 2022, raising the risk of it evolving into a bigger threat to humans, according to interviews with eight scientists.
Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year, and the country’s high maternal death rate makes it an outlier among developed nations.
The government of Japan has handed the medical equipment to Kathmandu Cancer Center (KCC) amid a ceremony that was held today in Changunarayan Municipality, Bhaktapur.
All the children of 413 local levels of 24 districts of the country were immunized, said Chief of Child Health and Immunization Section, Dr Abhiyan Gautam. The immunization campaign is underway at 180 local levels of 43 districts.
Minister for Communications and Information Communications, Rekha Sharma, has said blood donation could be launched as a campaign.