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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
The 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
The Covid-19 crisis has dominated news bulletins in Nepal for the last six months, and in the past week the headlines are...
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...
Injured use Internet to get rehab care
Last November, a speeding bus in Argakanchi lost control and tumbled down a mountain, killing 19 and injuring 18 passengers. Three weeks...
It’s an emergency: Nepal needs to improve trauma care
Speeding along a narrow winding mountain road in Dhading, a heavily intoxicated truck driver lost control of the vehicle and it overturned,...
Waiting till the cows come home
The first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West Highway,...
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