Today marks the World Malaria Day. The Day was observed with the theme of “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world”.
The Ministry of Health and Population has urged the public to take preventive measures against the heatwave that has already started sweeping across the Terai region.
The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has urged to be vigilant as the temperature is surging in the Terai belts of the country. There is a possibility of a heat wave from April 22 to April 26.
India’s capital choked on toxic fumes Tuesday, as a thick and pungent haze spread from a fire at a towering trash dump, the latest in a series of landfill blazes that authorities have struggled for years to bring under control.
A truck carrying chemicals used in drugs has caught fire. The truck (Na 4 Kha 8617) was going towards Kathmandu from Sunauli of Rupandehi when it suddenly caught fire when on the move on the Prithvi highway at Banchhetar, Gajuri rural municipality-6 in Dhading district this morning.
Europe is increasingly facing bouts of heat so intense that the human body cannot cope, as climate change continues to raise temperatures, the EU's Copernicus climate monitoring service and the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday.
The Mahakali Hospital, which was upgraded as a province hospital after the country adopted federalism, has been desperately waiting for adequate workforce and medical equipment so that it would be able to cater modern services to the patients.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that cow-to-cow transmission is a factor in the spread of bird flu in dairy herds, but it still does not know exactly how the virus is being moved around.
The Ministry of Health and Population has reminded the doctors and health workers working under it that it is illegal for them to work full-time in the private health institutions.
Damauli Hospital has operated 12-hour outpatient department (OPD) service from today. The hospital started OPD service from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm from today in view of increasing flow of patients.
The Department of Health Services has launched the National Vitamin 'A' programme for children under five years from Thursday.
A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat.