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Mukesh Adhikari

Mukesh Adhikari

The author is Public Health Officer at Department of Health Service, Teku, Kathmandu

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Irony of vaccination

COVID-19 pandemic has upended every aspect of lives around the world. Many people in the world including scientists and public health experts strongly believe that a vaccine is the only solution to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, scientists and vaccine companies are working tirelessly to br...
Aug 05, 2020
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Health for all

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli set a historic precedent by having his second kidney transplantation in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, a public hospital, inside the country. According to the hospital, his operation was successful, and he is desperately waiting to join the office. Neglecting su...
Mar 12, 2020
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Caution on coronavirus

Given the current situation of the rapid spread of novel coronavirus, a mysterious virus which  originated from the Wuhan city of China and later spread around the globe, a number of questions regarding the appropriate interventions have been raised in the scientific arena. One of the questions is w...
Feb 10, 2020
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Empower local health institutes

Nowadays, the news of airlifting childbearing women from remote areas by the government is common. In this fiscal year only, the government airlifted four childbearing women from Bajhang, a remote district of Sudurpaschim Province. Similar incidents were observed in Dolpa, Jajarkot, Bhojpur and many...
Jan 27, 2020
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Time to think out of the box

If we had tackled this problem from women’s health perspectives rather than cultural taboos, perhaps the woman who died in Chhaupadi shed would be among us today
Dec 09, 2019
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Benefits of breastfeeding

Despite clear legal provisions to discourage use of formula milk, pediatricians and health workers still prescribe it without hesitation.
Aug 07, 2017