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Nepal

Focused COVID-19 Media Monitoring, Nepal (November 24, 2023) [EN/NE]

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Emerging Theme(s):

  • The Minister of Health and Population has said that it is necessary to discuss whether the support received from donors has been properly used in the health sector.

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the outbreak of a new respiratory disease in China.

  • In the Far West, 226 people with HIV have died in three years.

  • The number of malnourished children in Kavrepalanchowk district has decreased since last year.

  • In Banke, there has been a problem of arsenic in drinking water from hand pumps.

  • Pathibhara Health Care Hospital Pvt. Ltd., in Panchthar headquarters Phidim, has been closed.

  • The professors at Madan Bhandari Institute of Health Sciences in Hetauda have their ‘pen down' since Bhadra 22 because they have not received salary, allowances, and service facilities.

  • After the death of a critically ill child immediately after being discharged from the Janakpur Neuro Hospital, the relatives have accused the doctor of negligence.

Recurring Theme(s):

  • Health problems have been observed among children and senior citizens of Aathbiskot municipality in Rukum West.