Open border, budget cuts, and mosquitoes moving to higher altitudes due to climate change pose major challenges.

A report from the World Meteorological Organisation says the impact of heatwaves became more severe in Asia in 2023.

Consumer rights activists demand immediate recall of the tainted products.

Avalanches and landslides intensify in the upper regions while droughts and heatwaves have surged in the plains

Warns of legal action. But schools say law allows them to levy some charge annually.

Officials at health and population ministry hope the training will help in lessening ongoing road traffic incidents, which has emerged as the major cause of death in the country.

Decline almost double the global average during the pandemic period, says The Lancet report.

With air quality deteriorating, experts warn of heightened risk of infection from viruses including the coronavirus.

Poor patients visiting the country’s oldest hospital from across Nepal are the hardest hit.

Change in virus variant or double infection—of seasonal flu and coronavirus—suspected for the rise in serious cases.

An estimated 35 percent of around 27,000 inmates in Nepal have mental health problems.

Patients who had to wait for a year for routine services in the past can now seek care within a week by paying nearly double under the paying service

Health ministry officials say around two dozen dengue cases reported every week. Actual number could be higher.

They say even if drugs and alcohol provide some relief from stress, these are no solution and can adversely affect mental health and well-being in the long run.

Doctors in Jajarkot and Rukum West say cases of fever and diarrhoeal infection have started to rise in health facilities.