Blog July 25, 2021

The Rising Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal: Problems and Prospects for Health System

Recently, on behalf of HERD International, I got an opportunity to participate in the Seventh Virtual National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal held on 1-2 July 2021. The theme of the summit was ‘Research in ...
Blog July 24, 2021

An Era of COVID-19 Research: A Therapeutic Perspective

COVID-19, declared as a pandemic, is a highly infectious disease that transmits through droplets released into the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. As of 13 July 2021, over 188 million people globally and above 658 ...
Blog July 23, 2021

The effect of COVID-19 and federalization on Nepal’s health system

The Alma Ata (1978) Declaration enables all health care systems to provide people with set of well-designed promotional, preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative programs. However, large scale health emergencies such as natural ...
Blog July 22, 2021

Health Policy and Implementation Gaps in Nepal

Nepal is in early stage of federalization where the country has been restructured under three tiers of government respectively federal government, seven provincial governments and 753 local governments. Power and responsibilities ...
Blog July 12, 2021

Double burdens on Nepalis: Diseases and out-of-pocket spending

Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a far cry for Nepal due to poor targets, ineffective implementation of health schemes and existing barriers to seek health services from health facilities. On the one hand, there is a ...
Blog April 30, 2021

Work from Home: Problems and Prospects

I live in a joint family, where my father is 67 years old and my nephew is 4 years old. Both of them fall under vulnerable population for COVID-19 infection. In addition, both of them were very resistant and hesitant to follow the ...