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Press evaluation:
Background:

Geriatric hospital still on paper (ht 08/05/2012)

22 community health clinics in remote areas (rep 03/05/2012)

MOHP sitting on PMO's directive on fair-price dispensaries, by Prem Dhakal (rep 02/05/2012)

Mobile health clinics to target city slums, by Arjun Poudel (rep 02/05/2012)

Mechi hospital lacks doctors, basic facilities, by Govind Kshetri (ht 26/04/2012)

Carelessly inadequate: Critical care, by Subhash P. Acharya (rep 14/04/2012)

TUTH docs’ stir in 2nd phase (kp 09/04/2012)

Tilganga starts laser surgery of the highest standard (rep 08/04/2012), Tilganga offers another cheap panacea, by Manish Gautam (kp 08/04/2012)

Doti health post scales the heights, by Mohan Shahi (kp 05/04/2012)

Equip Health Institutions For Effective Services (rn 12/03/2012)

Patients suffer as Mahakali Zonal Hospital hit hard by lack of enough doctors (nn 08/03/2012)

Trauma centre should immediately come into service (kp 26/02/2012), Operation of Bir-based trauma centre on the cards: Equipment installation in 3 months; Facility to have 50 beds in first phase (ht 26/02/2012)

Working in district hospitals, by Shishir Lakhey (kp 13/02/2012)

Mugu hospital faces shortage of medicines, by Raj Bhadur Shahi (kp 26/01/2012)

Hospitals vulnerable to high intensity quakes (ht 22/01/2012)

Junior doctors see patients referred by seniors, by Arjun Poudel (rep 21/01/2012)

Indefinite shutdown of health services in Kailali, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 20/01/2012)

Talks in progress to set up organ transplant centre in Bhaktapur: Govt allocates Rs 100 million for project (ht 14/01/2012)

Hospital holds girl captive for not paying bills (rep 14/01/2012)

ICU beds at Bir hard to come by, by Arjun Poudel (rep 14/01/2012)

‘Online’ clinic saving lives in Kalikot, by Tularam Pandey (kp 13/01/2012)

Poor at receiving end as hospitals discriminate in favour of well-off, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 29/12/2011) [This normal also for developed countries!]

Is Maternity Hospital failing to deliver?, by Arjun Poudel (rep 19/12/2011)

A model hospital: Bir Hospital is recycling its hazardous waste and winning accolades, by Bhrikuti Rai (nt 16/12/2011)

Injured by politics, by Manish Gautam (kp 10/12/2011)

Charikot- based hospital vandalised after death of admitted patient (nn 08/12/2011), Charikot general hospital vandalised over patient’s death: Administration admits negligence; Health assistant treated him instead of a doctor, by Subash Yonjan (ht 09/12/2011)

Overstaffed TUTH can't pay salaries, by Arjun Poudel (rep 07/12/2011)

Bir's radiology staff shut down services (rep 21/11/2011)

Ill-equipped ambulances under scanner (rep 18/11/2011)

Midwife in-charge at sub-health post: Locals bear the brunt, turn to witch doctors for treatment (ht 18/11/2011)

Dailekh health centres sans docs, by Prakash Adhikari (kp 14/11/2011)

Bir Hospital: Sorry state of affairs, by Manish Gautam (kp 12/11/2011)

Taplejung health posts facing acute shortage of medicines (nn 08/11/2011)

Bir gets 10 haemodialysis machines: New equipment to bring some respite for patients (kp 03/11/2011)

China pledges equipment for Nepal Army hospital (kp 01/11/2011)

Tihar deprives Baglung hospital of doctors (nn 28/10/2011)

Remote health-post providing round-the-clock services (nn 27/10/2011)

BPKIHS tense after 'negligence' kills baby girl, by Rohit Rai (rep 26/10/2011)

Woman loses kidney, spleen to surgeons' negligence, by Chandni Hamal (rep 18/10/2011), No mistake in surgery, says medical college, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 19/10/2011)

Advanced trauma care at Bir Hospital by Jan 2012 (rep 15/10/2011)

More facilities in urban health clinics (rep 13/10/2011)

Hospital finding it hard to cope with patient pressure, by Ratna Prasad Acharya (ht 13/10/2011)

Trauma center to be built in Dhulikhel, by Madhusudan Guragain (rep 11/10/2011)

Transfusion of wrong blood type kills patient in Jhapa, by Parbat Portel (kp 29/09/2011)

No end in sight to Manipal Hospital row: Agitating docs, management sticking to guns, by Ishwori Neupane (kp 22/09/2011)

Govt hospitals at high quake risk (kp 20/09/2011)

Mismanagement ailing Bir: Mahato (kp 16/09/2011)

93 non-Nepali staffers at Manipal, by Manoj Adhikari (rep 14/09/2011)

Hospital on sickbed, by Prakash Baral (kp 04/09/2011)

Hospital negligence claims another life, by Khila Nath Dhakal (rep 31/08/2011)

Patients ‘admitted’ in hotel as hospital crowded, by Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 31/08/2011)

Bir CT scan down since three months, by Arjun Poudel (rep 30/08/2011)

Prescription gets mixed up, patient dies, by Chandni Hamal (rep 23/08/2011)

Minister’s heart bleeds for Bir (kp 19/08/2011)

Corruption rules Bir hosp roost, by Manish Gautam (kp 14/08/2011)

Cancer hospital removes uterus of throat patient, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep 12/08/2011), Cancer hospital admits negligence (rep 12/08/2011), Sheer negligence this!, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 12/08/2011), Thyroid patient undergoes hysterectomy!, by Surya Prasad Kandel (ht 12/08/2011), Patient’s kin demand action, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 13/08/2011), Bharatpur Cancer Hospital suspends 22 staffers including doctors for performing surgery on wrong patient (nn 01/09/2011), 13 suspended over surgery mix-up at cancer hospital, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep 02/09/2011)

Maternity hosp tense after death (kp 12/08/2011)

Nepal’s oldest hospital to have organ donation unit, by Manish Gautam (kp 10/08/2011)

Five hospitals in Rupandehi functioning without permission (rep 05/08/2011)

Bir turns 122, trauma centre still idle (kp 29/07/2011)

Mobile hospitals at Sisdol land field site, by Arjun Poudel (rep 26/07/2011)

Bir hospital sets example in medical waste management, by Nirjana Sharma (kp 19/07/2011)

Geriatric ward for Patan Hospital (ht 18/07/2011)

Solu hospital shut due ‘Media can to docs, nurse row (ht 13/07/2011)

15 months on, handover row crippling Nawalparasi hospital (kp 11/07/2011)

The more doctors the merrier in Kalikot hosp (kp 10/07/2011)

Manipal tense over child’s death (ht 08/07/2011)

Birkha Dai's clinic, by Abhaya Shrestha (nt 09/07/2011)

Do hospitals have to be so expensive? Dhulikhel and Chhetrapati hospitals show the way in making health care affordable to all Nepalis, by Elipha Pradhananga (nt 08/07/2011)

World Bank funding construction of isolation wards in four hospitals (kp 06/07/2011)

Budget for trauma centre likely to freeze as NAMS stays idle, by Manish Gautam (kp 05/07/2011)

Govt hospitals profiteer at the cost of patients, by Arjun Poudel (rep 29/06/2011)

Valley to get 6 health clinics (rep 26/06/2011)

No ambulance in Rukum hospital for a week, by Kamal Thapa (rep 20/06/2011)

NAMS ‘frivolity’ traumatises trauma centre (kp 20/06/2011)

Bir Hospital staff seek action against doctors (ht 11/06/2011)

Improving Services In Hospitals (rn 06/06/2011)

Teku hospital to have ICU, isolation ward (rep 30/05/2011)

Bir to give dialysis services for Rs 500, by Arjun Poudel (rep 23/05/2011)

Death sparks vandalism at Dipayal hospital (ht 21/05/2011)

Consented excesses, by Mahabir Paudyal (rep 19/05/2011)

One hospital, two admins; patients, employees hit, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 17/05/2011)

Bir to build 5 new operation theaters (rep 07/05/2011)

Hospital closure continues (kp 06/05/2011)

Death sparks clash, medical college shut (ht 05/05/2011)

Bhairahawa hospital in eye of storm (ht 05/05/2011)

'Negligence' by Bir docs kills road victim (rep 04/05/2011), Bir Hospital tense after patient dies: Kin of deceased accuse doctors of negligence (ht 04/05/2011)

Teaching Hospital treasures withering on the vine (kp 04/05/2011)

Depoliticise Hospitals And Health Institutions (rn 03/05/2011), Duty comes above all for some: Doctors appealed to shun politics, by Suryaprakash Kandel (ht 03/05/2011)

Bir Hospital doctors on warpath with demands (ht 28/04/2011)

All services halted at Bharatpur cancer hospital (nn 28/04/2011), Cancer hospital shuts, patients hit, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 29/04/2011), Cancer at Cancer Hospital (rep 30/04/2011), Hospital gives scant care to patients, by Diopendra Baduwal (kp 02/05/2011), Four patients die in lack of treatment, Chandni Hamal (rep 02/05/2011), Patients and kin face the brunt as all services at Bharatpur Cancer Hospital close since five days (nn 02/05/2011), Cancer patients lose in hospital fight, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht), Writ against cancer hospital closure filed at apex court (ht 03/05/2011), Cancer Hospital to come back on rails from today, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 03/05/2011), Resume services: SC; Govt given 24 hrs to open cancer hospital (kp 04/05/2011), SC tells govt to resume services within 24 hours: Asks authorities concerned to uphold people’s right to health (ht 04/05/2011), Bharatpur cancer hospital resumes services (nn 04/05/2011), SC fiat falls flat as agitators warn (kp 05/05/2011), Essential act: SC order on cancer hospital could have set the right precedent (kp 05/05/2011)

Siege at Bir Hospital continues (ht 23/04/2011)

Cancer hospital appointment row affects services (ht 23/04/2011)

Nation’s homeopathic college on its sickbed, by Binod Bhandari (ht 18/04/2011)

Union threat shuts down hospital (ht 14/04/2011)

Bhaktapur kidney facility waits for hospital status (kp 05/04/2011)

Bir Hospital resumes open heart surgery (rep 17/03/2011)

Hospital appointment row: Employees seek security, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 12/03/2011)

Narayani hospital charged with illegal dealings, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 02/03/2011)

Doctors vow not to close emergency services (nn 27/02/2011)

Om Hospital refutes child death charge (ht 26/02/2011)

President's feelings get hurt when doctors close down hospital emergency wards (nn 24/02/2011)

Load-shedding compels Parbat hospital to carry out child delivery under cell-phone light (nn 23/02/2011)

Staff stir affects BPKIHS service delivery (ht 16/02/2011), BPKIHS staff padlock administrative offices for indefinite period (nn 17/02/2011), Agitating staff bring BPKIHS services to grinding halt: Protesters put forth nine-point demand, by Ratna Prasad Acharya (ht 18/02/2011)

BPKIHS bid to rein in doctors (ht 12/02/2011)

Twin strikes paralyse BP Koirala hospital: Security guards, technical staff obstruct BPKIHS services (ht 02/02/2011)

Bir Hospital itself lying on sick bed (kp 24/01/2011), Quality going down, says NVC report, by Ankit Adhikari (kp 28/01/2011)

Nursing colleges: No licence without 50-bed hospital (ht 24/01/2011)

NVC finds lots of irregularities at Bir (ht 21/01/2011)

DoC seeks probe details from Om: Hospital gets seven-day deadline to submit report (ht 20/01/2011)

Bir Hospital starts free Antiretroviral Therapy (kp 13/01/2011)

Sub-health posts to take full shape (kp 11/01/2011), Sub-health posts up for uprade: Govt aims to facilitate access to better rural health services (ht 11/01/2011)

Kidney centre coming soon: About 2.7 million Nepalis have kidney related problems (kp 06/01/2011)

Homeo hospital in a pitiful state, by Prasun Singh (kp 04/01/2011)

‘Satellite clinic’ for family planning needs (ht 04/01/2011)

10,000 sub-health posts to be health posts soon, by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (kp 02/11/2011)

Three deaths in a week at Bajura hospital: Shortage of manpower,equipment blamed (kp 31/12/2010)

Bir Hospital to install gamma camera (ht 28/12/2010)

Infant's death: DAO summons OM Hospital doctors (kp 27/12/2010), Explain infant’s death, CDO tells Om Hospital docs (ht 27/12/2010)

Hospital appointmernt row: Showdown in the offing, by Narayan Sharma and Dipendra Baduwal (kp 27/12/2010)

Shorthanded Dang hospital at its ebb (kp 27/12/2010)

Emergency care in dire straits, by Baburam Kharel (kp 19/12/2010)

Bir Hospital beats world standards, by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (kp 12/12/2010), Bir’s two years of renal transplant: Boasts high success rate but bemoans lack of operation theatre, other facilities (ht 12/12/2010)

Bajhang gets its first private hospital (ht 07/12/2010)

Bir Hospital effects ‘triage system’ in emergency ward (kp 28/11/2010)

Koreans to run clinic in Lukla (ht 23/11/2010)

Banke hospital turns battlefield (kp 12/11/2010)

Tension high in Nepalgunj, Itahari hospitals (ht 12/11/2010)

Bir launches triage system: Response to be based on patients’severity, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht 11/11/2010)

Gamma camera at Bis Hospital: Defaulters to face action (kp 28/10/2010), Panel for early set up (kp 01/11/2010)

Negligent clinic padlocked for failing to manage its waste (ht 27/10/2010)

Hospital sans health workers for months (ht 15/10/2010)

GP Koirala respiratory centre delayed (ht 30/09/2010)

Inside an emergency ward: Despite limited resources and overcrowding, Nepal's emergency room doctors are doing the best they can, by Ujjwal Prasai and Niranjan Shrestha (kp 18/09/2010)

Khotang hospital in dire straits: Bed, water shortage taking a toll (ht 14/09/2010)

Prasuti Griha to moult into a new avatar (kp 02/09/2010), ‘Develop Maternity
Hospital as institute’
(ht 02/09/2010)

Patients on hospital floor (ht 31/08/2010)

Nod to nursing colleges sans hospital likely (ht 30/08/2010)

Maternity, Teku hospitals staff padlock admn (ht 23/08/2010)

‘Not everything is healthy about health check-up centres’ (ht 20/08/2010)

Bir Hospital to become mercury-free zone (ht 19/08/2010), Bir to manage hospital waste, by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (kp 20/08/2010)

Doctors away, locals hit hard (ht 12/08/2010)

Rasuwa hospital ward gets Rotary aid (kp 08/08/2010)

Patient flow overwhelms hospital (ht 02/08/2010)

Unity hospital in hot water (kp 25/07/2010)

Patan Hospital to set up geriatric ward (ht 04/07/2010)

All’s not well with Siraha district hospital: Inundation,stench,dearth of doctors keep patients away (ht 23/06/2010)

Callous govt deprives Doti of vital drugs, by Mohan Shahi (kp 18/06/2010)

Gangalal Heart Centre to bring new angiography machine, by Gita Sapkota (rn 08/06/2010)

No doctors for Manang outposts Health posts remain closed for four years, by Rupa Narayan Dhakal (ht 31/05/2010)

Health post bringing cheers, by Kumar Luitel (ht 22/05/2010)

Bir sanitation in sorry state (kp 21/05/2010)

Pokhara regional hospital vandalized citing doctor's 'careless treatment' (nn 19/05/2010)

Number of doctors to double in hospitals, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht 14/05/2010)

Hopitals haven for stranded patients, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 05/05/2010), Discharged patients have nowhere to go, by Rishi Baral (ht 07/05/2010), Oxygen in short supply, hospitals ailing (ht 07/05/2010)

What ails govt hospitals: Not a single doc added in 17 years, by Gita Sapkota (rn 29/04/2010)

Politics sicken health centres (kp 27/04/2010)

Just doctors, by Swagat Raj Pandey (kp 08/04/2010)

‘Govt thinking to developing BP Cancer Hospital as medical city’ (rn 08/04/2010)

Hetauda Hospital employees up in arms (ht 04/04/2010), Hetauda hospital staff call off strike (rn 06/04/2010)

Services halted in Koshi Zonal Hospital, by Shekhar Regmi (ht 02/04/2010)

Mahakali hospital sans doctors, patients suffer, by Shivaraj Bhatta (ht 31/03/2010)

Increase in unclaimed bodies vex authorities, by Baburam Kharel (kp 31/03/2010)

TUTH docs halt all but emergency services (nn 15/03/2010), TUTH protest enters Day II; services halted (ht 17/03/2010), OPD set up outside hospital (kp 19/03/2010), Patients left in lurch as TUTH doctors' strike enters day five (nn 19/03/2010), TU hospital to observe complete shutdown, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 23/03/2010), TUTH body to halt all services (ht 23/03/2010), TUTH docs halt emergency services too (nn 23/03/2010),  Talks to end hospital strike inconclusive (rn 24/03/2010), TUTH stir begins, patients hit hard (ht 24/03/2010), Patients left high and dry, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 24/03/2010), TUTH talks wobble, second day too sees services not at hand, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht 25/03/2010), TUTH protest continues, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 25/03/2010), Pressure piles on TUTH docs: Primary care resumes as strike continues, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 26/03/2010), Emergency services at TUTH resume (rn 26/03/2010), Hospital Rows And Poor Patients (rn 26/03/2010), Controversial entrance exam at TUTH postponed (rn 27/03/2010), TUTH entrance tests scrapped (ht 27/03/2010), Political wrangling behind TUTH stir (kp 27/03/2010), TUTH management warns of action against agitating docs (nn 27/03/2010), TUTH protesters to hold mass meet (ht 28/03/2010), Pressure mounted on TUTH to resume services (rn 28/03/2010), Irked locals close TUTH gates (nn 28/03/2010), Home Minister warns vandals to stay off TUTH row (ht 29/03/2010), TUTH agitators offer no respite (kp 29/03/2010), Show cause on TUTH closure (kp 30/03/2010), DAO asks TUTH to resume services (ht 31/03/2010), Resume services, CDO orders TUTH (kp 31/03/2010), TUTH crisis deepens; irate locals attack docs (nn 31/03/2010), TUTH heaves sigh of relief: Probe team formed (kp), TUTH doctors back on duty from today (ht 01/04/2010), Services at TUTH resume after 18 days (nn 01/04/2010), Interim order to open TUTH (nn 03/04/2010)

TUTH turns into a battle ground; over dozen including campus chief held (nn 13/03/2010)

Bir Hospital row on; panel yet to submit report (ht 26/02/2010)

Health facility without docs, patients hit hard, by Shankar Shrestha (ht 19/02/2010)

Civil servant hospital comes into full operation (rn 13/02/2010), ‘Political intervention’ at Civil Service Hospital, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 19/02/2010)

Region HQ sans public health post, by Tekendra Deuba (ht 09/02/2010)

Gangalal heart centre turns 15 (ht 30/01/2010)

Most Nepalese hospitals below quake safety standard, by Gita Sapkota (rn 21/01/2010)

Pathibhara Ayurveda Hospital opens (rn 21/01/2010)

No medicine for the sick (kp 20/01/2010), Missing pills (kp 21/01/2010)

Govt likely to waive service tax on hospitals, clinics (ht 11/01/2010)

Scraps leave Bir Hospital without breathing space, by Laxmi Maharjan (ht 02/01/2010), Scrap taking its toll on hospital health (kp 02/01/2010), Two-day ultimatum to solve Bir row (ht 03/01/2010), Bir Hospital strike: Who bothers to solve it, any way? (rn 03/01/2010), Bir Hospital doctors continue strike (kp 03/01/2010), Registrar docs join Bir stir (ht 04/01/2010), Protests affect service at Bir (ht 05/01/2010), Patients referred to private hospitals for treatment (rn 05/01/2010), Docs’ protest intensifies (kp 05/01/2010), New twist to hospital row: Services continue to be affected, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp), Bir docs continue strike (kp 07/01/2010), Prevention is better (kp 07/01/2010), Bir Hospital docs call off agitation (ht 08/01/2010), Resident docs withdraw protest (kp 08/01/2010), Patients narrate harrowing tales (ht 09/01/2010), Politicisation takes its toll on Bir Hospital, by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (kp 10/01/2010), A government doctor earns as much as a menial labourer, interview with Kedar Narsingh K.C. (kp)

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