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Blog April 16, 2025
A Lifeline for the People: Free Ambulance Service in Suddhodhan Rural Municipality
In many parts of Nepal, particularly in the rural areas, getting to a hospital during an emergency can be a daunting task. Long distances, poor roads, and lack of transport are among the most common barriers, especially for people without the means to procure a vehicle in a timely fashion. In Suddhodhan Rural Municipality of ...

Blog March 26, 2025
From Fieldwork to Future: a field researcher’s story
Introduction Namaste! My name is Rojina Adhikari. I am from Pokhara-10, Rambazar. Currently, I am working for the CHORUS project at HERD International. This project is being implemented in Pokhara, specifically in the former Lekhnath Municipality. Our work is currently focused in Wards 27 to 32. In this project, we aim to ...

Blog March 12, 2025
Empowering Communities to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
When disease-causing microbes develop resistance to antimicrobial medicines, this phenomenon leads to infections that are harder to treat, causing prolonged hospital stays, an upsurge in hospital costs, and an increase in mortality rates. Widespread and unmonitored use of antimicrobials over time leads to Antimicrobial Resistance ...

Blog February 27, 2025
Adapting Health Systems to Face the Impacts of Climate Change in Nepal
Introduction Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a crucial public health challenge around the world. Nepal is no different, with rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting disease patterns straining health systems throughout the country. To discuss ongoing initiatives, gaps, and future directions to ...

Blog February 18, 2025
Fieldwork beyond data: People, places, and moments
Wrapped in a thick muffler, gloves, jacket, and carefully adjusting my mask, stepping out into the cold winter air became my routine for a solid month as a field researcher. My fellow researchers and I met at Kalika Chowk in eastern Pokhara to begin our day, with the morning chill creeping through our layers during the winding ...
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Blog February 4, 2021
Gender and Intersectional Stratifiers in Health Information System of Nepal: a study of HIS policies and practices
Our context – HIS and federalization Health Information System (HIS), one of the building blocks as identified by WHO is a priority for strengthening health systems in Nepal. Health Management Information System (HMIS) is the ...
Blog December 16, 2020
Experiences of three tires of government in Responding COVID-19 pandemic
Government of Nepal has been responding COVID-19 pandemic since the day it affected country despite some negligible preparations before COVID-19 cases were first found in the country. Since then, federal, provincial, and local ...
Blog November 23, 2020
Handling ‘Work From Home’ During Pandemic
“WFH?” A colleague dropped me a message in my Chat box few months back. I had not noticed how soon Working from Home had set a new work culture in professional setting and acronym for the same- ‘WFH’ was being so ...
Blog April 1, 2020
Behaviour in Times of Corona [COVID-19]
‘COVID 19 will be the worst pandemic we will ever witness in our lifetime’, says my colleague. It was January 23, 2020 when Nepal confirmed its first positive case. He had come back from Wuhan, China, had minor COVID-19 ...
Blog September 5, 2019
मधुमेहका भ्रम चिर्दै
ज्योति मण्डल / आवृति अर्ज्याल जनकपुरधामको बाह्र बिघा मैदानमा भगवान शिवको चर्चामा ...
Blog December 11, 2018
Mobile phones and health
Recent data shows that 93% of the Nepali population own mobile phone whereas only 84% of them have access to toilet in Nepal (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2016). So if you were in a developing context, which one would you ...