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COVID-19 Lockdown in Nepal: Help Your Adults to Overcome Health Risks
As coronavirus cases keep on rising, it can be hard for older adults to see the need for lockdown and the loneliness that can come with it as there is no chance of social gatherings. For months now, they...
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Concerted effort holds the key to fighting off coronavirus
Everyone, from US President Donald Trump to a common man, wants to know how close we are to finding a cure to Covid-19 and how long this lockdown is going to last. All our questions are best answered only...
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Bio-ethics during pandemic: Necessity or ill-timed muscle-flexing?
Recently, a few frontline health care workers were reprimanded and asked to produce written explanation by the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) for publishing a research article in an international journal about gene sequencing of the first case of...
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Triaging surgical procedures during pandemics
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a major pandemic caused by an RNA virus named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—Coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2). This pandemic has already been labelled as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization...
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Promote hand hygiene to save lives and combat Covid-19
Promoting good hand hygiene is one of the most basic yet powerful tools that member states of the WHO South-East Asia Region must continue to leverage to reduce the spread of Covid-19. All Member States should urgently provide universal...
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Advice from an Italian to the rest of the world, Nepal can learn too
As I think everybody knows, Italy is on quarantine because of the coronavirus outbreak. That means that everybody has to stay home unless you’ve got valid reasons to go out. This situation is bad, but what’s worse is seeing...
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Achieve gender equality in this generation
Achieving gender equality is everyone’s business, including the health sector’s. Health authorities across the WHO South-East Asia Region must be a force for change and take the opportunity to lead. On this year’s International Women’s Day, which marks 25 years since...
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MEDICAL USE OF PANCHAGAVYA
Cow is considered as a religious animal in the Hindu civilization. Beside the religious importance of cow, Ayurveda texts have described the medical and day to day interventional importance of cow and its importance. Cow has been taken as...
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Access for all to clean water is essential to eliminating neglected tropical diseases
Access for all to clean and safe water is fundamental to controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) from across the WHO South-East Asia Region. Alongside other interventions, access to clean and safe water is a powerful means to...
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Families are the first line of defense in the battle to prevent and manage diabetes
Families that know the signs, symptoms, risks and complications of diabetes are best positioned to prevent the disease and seek medical care to manage it. Health authorities Region-wide should harness this capacity given an estimated 91 million people in...
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My posting from yesterday for non-vernacular readers
My hearty salutations to all my friends and colleagues in the NEPAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION! I have been a member of this Association since 1973 AD. As a relatively elderly colleague and in that capacity I have thought it necessary...
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Improving health status in new federal structure
As Nepal has recently entered into a new federal democratic republic system from a unitary structure, the discourse of the role and deployment of health professionals in Nepal in the new form of governance is now on the rise....
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