Nepal marks World Leprosy Day 2025: Progress and challenges ahead On the occasion of the 72nd World Leprosy Day, Dr. Rajesh Sambhajirao Pandav, WHO Representative to Nepal, highlighted Nepal's significant progress in combating leprosy while urging continued efforts to eliminate the disease entirely. Nepal 26 Jan, 2025
HMs to nominate next WHO regional director Health ministers and senior officials from member countries are meeting here next week to deliberate on priority health issues and nominate the next World Health Organisation Regional Director for South- East Asia. Nepal 29 Oct, 2023
Nepal, among countries urged to ensure eye care On the occasion of World Sight Day, the World Health Organisation has urged countries, including Nepal, in the South-East Asia Region to accelerate efforts to ensure that everyone has equitable access to high-quality and comprehensive eye health services in line with the newly adopted Regional Action Plan for integrated people-centred eye care (2022-2030). Nepal 14 Oct, 2022
Health ministers of South-East Asia meeting in Paro The 75th Regional Committee Session of the World Health Organisation South- East Asia — the annual governing body meeting of WHO in this region — being hosted by Bhutan this year is set to be held in Paro of Bhutan from September 5 to 9. Kathmandu 04 Sep, 2022
Health ministers to discuss pandemic, reinvigorate essential health services The health ministers of the member countries of World Health Organisation South- East Asia Region will deliberate next week to expedite the key issues regarding the ongoing pandemic and measures in a bid to reinvigorate essential health services and achieve universal health coverage. Nepal 05 Sep, 2021
Neglected tropical diseases Neglected tropical diseases are parasitic, viral or bacterial diseases causing illness for more than one billion population globally. However, it specifically traps people under the poverty line. Blogs 08 Apr, 2021
WHO regional health ministers to meet today to discuss COVID KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 8 Health ministers from member countries of World Health Organisation South East Asia Region are set to discuss measures to curtail the outbreak of COVID-19, ways to maintain essential health services and transition to the... Travel 09 Sep, 2020
'Health system needs to be restructured' Over the years, the country has seen a surge in dengue and scrub typhus cases. Recently, a patient suspected of contracting novel coronavirus was admitted to a hospital. Whenever these cases surface, people start panicking because they do not fully... Travel 20 Jan, 2020
Increasing leprosy cases The country’s transition to federalism has jolted the leprosy services at the local, provincial and national level. Leprosy is not a priority at the local level, and the budget is not adequate for potent interventions Every two hours and forty... 13 Nov, 2019
�Plan needed to combat tropical and infectious diseases� More than a billion people across the world, mostly in low and lower- Middle income countries, are affected by neglected tropical diseases, according to World Health Organisation. Among the six WHO regions, South-East Asia region bears the second... Travel 23 Sep, 2019
Nepal felicitated for controlling Hepatitis B Kathmandu, September 3 Nepal has been felicitated by the World Health Organisation for becoming one of the first four countries from the South-East Asia Region to control Hepatitis B. Ministers of health of six member countries of WHO South-East... Horoscopes 04 Sep, 2019
WHO stresses access for all to clean water to eliminate tropical diseases Kathmandu, March 22 Access for all to clean and safe water is fundamental to controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases from across the South-East Asia Region, said a press release issued by the New Delhi-based World Health... Horoscopes 23 Mar, 2019
