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Nepal

Focused COVID-19 Media Monitoring, Nepal (September 11, 2023) [EN/NE]

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Emerging Theme(s):

  • The number of suicides in Sudurpashchim Province has been increasing every year.
  • The Musahar settlement in Bardibas-14 has been affected by tuberculosis.
  • The Education, Health and Information Technology Committee will form a working group to study the problems in medical education.
  • Secretary of the MoHP, Dev Kumari Guragain, has conducted an emergency inspection of the Central Prison Hospital.
  • Former President, Ram Baran Yadav, has been admitted to Bir Hospital.
  • The Drug Administration Department has set up a help desk in the office premises for the assistance of the customers.

Recurring Theme(s):

  • The number of dengue infected people in Kathmandu Valley has exceeded 800.
  • The infection of scrub typhus has started to appear in Triyuga Municipality in Udayapur.
  • There has been a shortage of vaccines against rabies in Janakpurdham Provincial Hospital since a week.
  • After the spread of viral fever in Kalikot, the number of patients in the hospital has increased.
  • Fever patients has increased in most of the settlements of Mugu's Soru Rural Municipality since one and a half weeks.
  • Minister of Health and Population, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, has promised to take action against the culprit involved in the death of a girl in Kanti Children's Hospital if it was due to deliberate negligence.
  • The Nepal Medical Council is going to study the dispute regarding the death of a girl child at Kanti Children's Hospital.
  • The interest towards health insurance in Baitadi has been increasing.
  • The attraction of patients towards Ayurveda is increasing in Banke.