Another baby's life is saved in rural Nepal
Puspa Pandhak was just finishing her duty at a rural hospital in Tehrathum district last week when a 19-year-old woman was brought...
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Childless by choice
To have a baby or not is a personal decision, or that of a couple, the third party doesn’t have a say in it
Saving Nepali mothers on Mother’s Day
Dedicated nurse returns to the village of her birth to run a birthing centre, and save lives during the pandemic
“What can be more fulfilling than saving lives?”
Social entrepreneur fulfils promise to his mother to improve maternal care in rural Nepal
3 Nepali mothers still die daily at childbirth
It should not be surprising that Nepal’s first COVID-19 death was a new mother. What was surprising was to hear Prime Minister K P...
Miracle drug to reduce maternal deaths
Tranexamic acid (TXA) is a game-changer drug in the treatment of post-partum haemorrhage (PPH), the main cause of death in women immediately...
When panic goes viral
The global public health crisis caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus has hospitalised tens of thousands and killed hundreds of people, wrecked...
Federalism leaves Nepal’s medical sector ailing
https://youtu.be/FmieAvLuWBoFederalism was supposed to bring the government closer to the people, decentralise medical care and improve public health at the grassroots. But...
POOR HEALTH MAKES NEPALIS POORER
There used to be a time when the main public health threat in Nepal was from infectious diseases like malaria, encephalitis, TB...
Implant service providers take contraception to Nepal's poor
Two nurses visiting distant Maharudra Health Post in Baitadi had packed up, said goodbye to staff and started down the road when...
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