Finance ministry has capped next year’s health budget at Rs83 billion even as the US halts its aid.

Rising obesity will cause early diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, says the report, calling for urgent action.

Lack of screening for mental and physical health problems puts thousands of them at risk.

Experts say lack of reliable data will hinder health planning and effective interventions.

Officials call for a bigger healthcare budget to continue maternal and child health, nutrition, and immunisation next year.

Gangalal heart centre says without extra funding it may have to stop offering free treatment to children.

Call for action to mitigate climate migration as droughts, floods, lost livelihoods force vulnerable families to leave.

Drug regulator says shoddy drugs may have already reached patients given the slow lab testing process.

Over 2,000 neonates die in Nepal each year. Child health experts warn the halt in crucial programmes threatens years of progress in child health.

MCA Nepal unaffected, but healthcare programmes including micronutrient survey, demographic health survey and disease surveillance could be derailed.

Experts say infections in children and in new districts pose challenges to kala-azar eradication by 2026.

Department of Hydrology and Meteorology had predicted a hot and dry winter this year.

Climate change and weakening link between the public and forests due to migration are amplifying risks, experts say.

Back-to-back or simultaneous infections can cause pneumonia and severe deterioration in health, say experts.

Complications were diagnosed at a local health post, but cost concerns and lack of awareness led to home delivery.