Viral fever grips Biratnagar

March 24, 2011. Morang. Ministry of Health and Population, District Public Health Office Morang has provided 290 bed nets (LLIN) and Essential drugs to fire affected Bhutanese refugees of Sanischare camp of Morang district

सप्तकाशी एफ. एम. द्वारा असोज ७ गते २०६७ विराटनगरमा ‘पूर्वेली सवाल’ अन्तर्गत ‘औषधीमा भइरहेको ठगी कसरी हटाउने -‘ भन्ने सवालमा अन्तरक्रिया आयोजना गरियो ।

A Community based ‘Sukuna Samudaik Hospital’ has been opened in Indrapur Morang.

Jan 19, 2010 (Kathmandu). Nepal has announced as elimination of Leprosy at national level not at district level. Government of Nepal declared Nepal as Leprosy eliminated country. Ministry of Health and Population officially announced this in an official program in Kathmandu. Elimination of Leprosy is called when there is prevalence rate less than 1 per 10,000 population. But Terai districts have not achieved the goal of elimination since Terai districts are having more than 2 per 10,000 and they are leprosy hyperendemic districs.

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.

Jhapa Nepal, 29 Jan 2009, Following the outbreak of bird flue in birds in Kakarvitta Jhapa, active surveillance of avian influenza is being done in the area by District Public Health Office. No suspected avian influenza case has been found during active surveillance of more than 100 households so far.