Concerted effort holds the key to fighting off coronavirus

To move things forward, the entire world needs to get together to create medical ‘hiveminds’ and share information to stem the crisis. 

Dr. Arbin Joshi

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...

Bio-ethics during pandemic: Necessity or ill-timed muscle-flexing?

Dr Arbin Joshi

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...

Triaging surgical procedures during pandemics

Dr Ramesh Singh Bhandari

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...

Stranded Nepalis question government’s apathy towards their plight

Gajendra Bohara

Gujarat government has issued orders to its state administration to arrange the repatriation of over 20,000 stranded Nepali migrant workers.  The move follows the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ instruction to the state government to coordinate with the Nepali...