Every year, 3,000 people have renal failure in Nepal. Many are unable to find a donor to undergo renal transplantation.

Vaccination has been delayed due to cold and snowfall. Around 4 million children throughout the country are inoculated with MR vaccine in the ongoing campaign.

If the proposal is approved, the number of districts implementing surveillance drives to determine the causes of deaths will reach 55.

Such unapproved products could cause more adverse health impacts than benefits, it warns.

Dental patients get disfigured, lose huge money as they end up at quacks’.

Officials say cases of flu and fever are rising in hospitals, and children are missing schools due to the infection.

Most prisons in Nepal are overcrowded and hold inmates more than twice their capacity.

The city office has started segregating degradable and non-degradable from ward 27. Degradable waste is also being used to produce biogas.

Obesity has emerged as a major public health problem in Nepal, impacting not only children, but also adolescents and adults.

Nepali health authorities are still in the dark about the whereabouts of around 28,000 estimated TB patients.

Dengue spreading mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, also transmit Zika and Chikungunya virus.

Doctors advise parents not to wait any longer if the fever in their children persists beyond three days, and to avoid purchasing over-the-counter medicines.

Cities and accessible areas were hit hardest in measles outbreaks in 19 districts last year.

The drug regulator often recalls drugs when they are sold out or are close to expiry.

Tobacco consumption in the South-East Asian region continues to be the highest globally.

Experts warn budget cuts could undo the progress the country has made in the health sector over the past several years.

Neonatal deaths have not declined in the past five years, according to a study.

Around 5.7 million children in 75 districts will be inoculated with MMR vaccine in the three-week campaign.

In the South-East Asia Region, non-communicable diseases cause 69 percent of the nearly nine million deaths every year.

A low-pressure system formed in the west caused cloudy conditions throughout the country on Wednesday.