To improve the quality of health care in Nepal, supervision/ monitoring involving periodic visits by the district supervisor to health facilities (top-down approach) is in practice. It is not objectively implemented because of time and financial constraints and terrain of the country. To assess the effectiveness of a pre-tested strategy i.e. peer-group discussion with self-assessment piloted th...

Blackbuck is the existing members of genus Antilope which most elegant and graceful among all Antelopes Asia with distinct sexual dimorphism. show endemism in Pakistan, Nepal India occupying mainly semi-arid grassland areas. The name species attributes towards dark brownish to blackish coat color male species. While female young ones are tawny or yellow. Chin undersides legs chest white both in...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the bacterial enteropathogens Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella species and Shigella species were investigated. METHODOLOGY A total of 877 stool samples were received for culture at the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), Kathmandu, Nepal, during January 2002 to December 2004, from diarrhoea patients attending Shukraraj ...

Background Nutritional status of children is one of the major predictors of child survival. However, malnutrition is a major public health problem in most of the developing countries and occurs prominently among under-five children. In context of Nepal, nearly 37% children are suffering from underweight, 41% from stunting and 11% are suffering from wasting. These children are at a substantially...

BACKGROUND ocular tumors are commonly encountered in ophthalmic practice. OBJECTIVE to study the clinical pattern of ocular tumors in the eastern region of Nepal. MATERIALS AND METHODS the hospital records of patients with ocular tumors treated at B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in the eastern region of Nepal over a period of 5 years (April 2003 - March 2008) were studied retrospec...

Background. National VL Elimination Programs in India, Nepal and Bangladesh face challenges as home-based Miltefosine treatment is introduced. Objectives. To study constraints of VL management in endemic districts within context of national elimination programs before and after intervention. Methods. Ninety-two and 41 newly diagnosed VL patients were interviewed for clinical and provider experi...

Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack, a small tropical evergreen shrub growing in Nepal, has numerous uses in traditional medicine for treatment of abdominal pain, diarrhea, stomach ache, headache, edema, thrombosis, and blood stasis. The present study investigated the chemical composition and bioactivities of the leaf essential oil from M. paniculata from Nepal. The essential oil from leaves was obtai...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of TB requires multiple visits. Reducing the number of visits for diagnosis could make the process more accessible, with significant savings to the patients. OBJECTIVE To describe direct costs incurred by patients consulting TB diagnostic centres. METHOD Adults with cough >3 weeks' duration were interviewed using structured questionnaires in Yemen and Nepal to quant...

Diclofenac Sodium, a Non-steroidal anti-Inflammatory drug (NSAID) was banned for veterinary use in Pakistan, India and Nepal in 2005-06 due to its relay toxicity associated with catastrophic decline in the populations of vulture in South Asia. The main aim of the present research was to study pharmacokinetics of meloxicam in goats under local conditions. Meloxicam is another NSAID, reported as ...

Backgrounds: Case Fatality Ratios (C.F.R.) in neighbouring countries recently varied widely, with highest being Afghanistan (2.43%), followed by Pakistan (2.05%), Bangladesh (1.26%), Sri Lanka (0.54%), Maldives (0.38%), and Nepal (0.21%). This study–based on analysis of COVID-19 data from India, was undertaken to investigate into the inter-state differentials active case rates, recovery rates &...