Viral fever grips Biratnagar

June 30, 2011. Review and Planning: Biratnagar Urban Health Program meeting with Sub-metropolitan management Committee. Three clinics are opened in three wards of Biratnagar in this Fiscal year. Another three clinics and Primary Health Care Centre are planned for coming fiscal year. The official said still 8 percent urban population is the unreached population for…

September 21, 2011, Biratnagar. Minister of Health and Population visited Rangeli Hospital today. Management Committee members and residents reported the poor situation of the hospital to be improved by providing doctors and enough medicine.

Government of Nepal has decided to make delivery service free across the country from 14 January 2009. The cost covering normal and scissoring section will be reimbursed to all health institutions accordingly by Ministry of Health as Regional Director Dr N.P. KC said in a regional workshop today in Biratnagar.  

In Nepal, Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is 283 per 100,000 live births in 2005 and which is expected to lower as 250 by the year 2009 in the country as government plan. However, the MMR is being considered still higher in the region.

15 Oct. 2009, District Public Health Office Jhapa has stopped screening of visitors for Influenza A H1N1 which was started from July 2009 at Kakarvitta Jhapa. After indigenous cases of Swine Flu detected in Chitwan, Department of Health Services Kathmandu circulated guidelines and the Health Desk has been closed, said DPHO official. Awareness campaign and trainging on Swine flu for health workers are being conducted in Jhapa.

Mrs. Hiramaya Basnet of Babiyabirta ward No 4 Morang, a local Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) succeeds to build a cottage for PHC-Out Reach Clinic in her ward.

Nov 1, 2010. Morang Nepal. A mothers’ group in Indrapur- 3, Morang is going to be strengthened Emergency fund intended to use during delivery and treating emergency children. The mother’s group has got financial support of Rs. 10,000 from Lok Bahadur Thapa and another 10,000 from Biswamitra Dhakal for the emergency fund. Bom Bahadur Thapa…