DDA
issues directive not to use 103 antibiotic drugs (kh
18/09/2023), Nepal
drugs regulator bans 103 antibiotic combinations : Of
the 103 combos, 14 are being used in Nepal. Irrational
use of combinations is fuelling antibiotic resistance,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 20/09/2023)
DDA
directs for putting red line on label of antibiotics
(rep 03/09/2023)
Framing
Pharmacy Education In Nepal, by Shyam P Lohani (rn
27/08/2023)
Banke
reports shortage of eye medicines amidst growing cases
of conjunctivitis (rep 16/08/2023)
Children’s
antibiotic drug being sold in the market for the past 20
months found to be substandard : Department of Drug
Administration has directed the concerned manufacturing
company to recall its substandard drug, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 11/08/2023)
Need
To Regulate Sales Of OTC Drugs, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 10/08/2023)
DDA
shuts down 10 pharmacies operating illegally in valley
(rep 25/07/2023)
In
Karnali highlands, harvesting medicinal herbs is the way
of life and source of livelihood : But people worry
their ancestral occupation might come to a crossroads as
the new generation is attracted to city life, by
Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 17/07/2023)
Cosmetic
Richness Of The Himalayan Flora, by Persijs
Muiznieks (rn 14/07/2023)
28
percent of patients in Nepal take antibiotics without
prescription: Report (kh 07/07/2023), 28
percent patients in Nepal consume antibiotics without
doctors' prescription (rep 07/07/2023), Most
doctors in Nepal don’t prescribe antibiotics by generic
name: Study : ‘Pharmas pay doctors for prescribing their
products, and many use only specific brands.’, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 10/07/2023), Arming
against AMR : The growing abuse of antibiotics heralds
an impending health crisis. Nepal is unprepared (kp
12/07/2023)
Private
pharmacies in Bhaktapur found selling medicines in
violation of set standards (rep 15/03/2023)
Pharma
products imports fall sharply (ae 10/03/2023)
Decline
in medicinal herbs output worries highlanders : Locals
in Karnali stay in the forest for three months to
collect the herbs by making temporary shelters as soon
as winter passes, by Krishna Prasad Gautam and Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 20/02/2023)
Herbal
diplomacy: Is Nepal ready? (ht 03/02/2023)
MPs
demand govt stop production, sale of substandard
medicines (rep 24/01/2023)
Drug
regulatory body bans import of medicines from 16 Indian
companies : Among the pharmaceutical companies the
department has prohibited from importing drugs to Nepal
is one promoted by Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev (kp
20/12/2022)
DDA
steps up surveillance to prevent the import of deadly
cough syrup from India : Doctors suggest the public to
be careful while purchasing medicines over the counter,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 11/10/2022)
Environmental
toxicity and climate crisis threaten Nepal’s medicinal
plants : Heavy metal contamination also has implications
on human health, while the climate crisis could greatly
alter the habitats of plant species, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 08/10/2022)
Stagnant
paracetamol price contributing to its shortage : The
medicine’s pricing, not revised for 14 years, seems to
be a big reason for the shortfall, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 23/09/2022)
BP Koirala
Institute of Health Sciences starts its own pharmacy :
In the absence of a government-run pharmacy patients had
to buy medicines at a higher prices from private
drugstores, by Pradip Menyangbo (kp 16/09/2022)
Nepal
could become self-sufficient in medicine production
(kh 23/04/2022)
Ministry
to support Nepal Drugs Limited to produce 25 essential
medicines : National regulatory body to be expanded in
all seven provinces to ensure the quality of drugs,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 15/04/2022)
Agency
on cards to check safety and efficacy of drugs and
medical devices : Amid reports of prevalence of
substandard medical equipment in the market, the Health
Ministry has proposed forminga Food and Drug
Administration, by Arjun Poudel (kp 17/03/2022)
Distribution
of first-ever Nepal-manufactured anti-cancer drug starts
(kh 16/02/2022)
Cetamol
supply to be normal by Friday : Nepal Aushadhi Limited
to send 600,000 packets by Friday (kh 19/01/2022)
Acute
shortage of essential medicines at government health
centres in Mugu : The district is in dire need of
medicines since the number of patients suffering from
fever, typhoid, asthma, common cold, diarrhoea and
vomiting is on the rise with the onset of winter, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 06/12/2021), Amid
the pandemic : The absence of essential medicines for
almost two months is nothing short of maleficence
(kp 07/12/2021) [The Deuba
government exists only on paper. The fulfilment of tasks
and duties must wait. Power struggles and party
conventions have absolute priority!]
Seven
Local Levels In Bajura Going Through Medicine Shortage
(rn 10/11/2021)
19
medical stores face action in KTM Valley (kh
09/11/2021)
Hill
Districts In Sudurpaschim Face Drugs Shortage (rn
27/10/2021)
Nepali
pharmaceutical companies mull setting up vaccine plants,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/08/2021)
People
forced to buy drug used to treat severe Covid-19
patients in black market : Patients paying up to 17
times the government approved price for Tocilizumab, a
drug that is in short supply; Malpractice also common in
private hospitals treating Covid-19 patients,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 18/08/2021)
Patients
deprived of free essential medicines at Mugu government
health institutions : The District Hospital in Gamgadhi
sends patients to private medical stores due to a
shortage of medicines at the hospital, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 29/07/2021
FDI
in pharmaceutical sector : Must to encourage research,
by Samrat Baral (ht 08/07/2021)
Demand
for medicines to reach 71.65 tonnes annually by 2024-25,
report says : The country imports pharmaceutical
products worth Rs28.65 billion annually, mainly from
India, Industry Department reports, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 05/07/2021)
Legalise
marijuana : Nepal should look into the prospectrts of
the constructive use of cannabis, by Roshee
Lamichhane (kp 22/04/2021)
Medicine
production declines as sales falter (ht 28/12/2020)
Health
posts in Lahan reeling under shortage of essential
medicines : Government gives 70 types of medicines
for free to patients at district hospitals, by
Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 07/10/2020)
Herbal
Medicinal Plants For Prosperous Nepal, by Krishna
Prasad Sigdel (rn 22/09/2020)
Drug
regulator directs firms to increase import of life
saving medicines: There are shortages of drugs for
diseases like asthma and diabetes and those needed for
intensive care, by Arjun Poudel (kp 24/06/2020)
Achieving
Self-Reliance In Pharmaceuticals, by Narayan B.
Chhettri (rn 07/06/2020)
Jajarkot
facing shortage of essential drugs (ht 23/04/2020)
India
seeks list of essential drugs that Nepal needs, by
Umesh Poudel (ht 06/03/2020)
Medicine
stocks enough for at least five months: Govt, drug
makers, by Rajesh Khanal (rep 05/03/2020), Nepal’s
essential drug supply to last three months: Govt to act
against those found hoarding medicines or raising prices,
by Umesh Poudel (ht 05/03/2020)
Bill
seeking legalisation of cultivation and consumption of
medical marijuana registered in Parliament: The bill,
registered privately by a ruling party lawmaker, seeks
to reverse a 50-year
proscription on the cultivation, consumption and sale of
marijuana, by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/03/2020)
Issues
Of Essential Medicines, by Shyam P. Lohani (rn
26/01/2020)
Substandard
medicines being distributed from state-run health
facilities: Of the 285 essential drugs examined, 41 were
found to be of substandard quality; Local governments
purchase drugs without running quality checks, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 14/01/2020), Inadequate
response to substandard drugs: Medicines are a matter of
life and death, the concerned should ensure their
quality (kp 15/01/2020)
When
drug companies, pharmacies and doctors all benefit,
patients pay the price: Drug companies are marking up
the prices of their medicine to recoup their unethical
investments in doctors and retailers, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 28/12/2019)
Health
Ministry set to revise essential drugs list: Medicines
that are not in use or have side effects will be removed
and new drugs treating non-communicable diseases will be
enlisted, by Arjun Poudel (kp 25/11/2019)
Over-harvesting
pushes precious herbs 'to brink of extinction' in
Bajhang forests: More than 1,800 herb collectors have
swarmed the district's forest areas, local unit
representatives say, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
15/11/2019)
KMC
not to buy new medicines as last year’s purchased drugs
are gathering dust in warehouses: The health division
had purchased 85 different types of essential medicines
last year to distribute free of cost to needy patients,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 08/11/2019)
Should
Nepal still continue to ban cannabis? The country needs
to understand the history of its trade and consumption,
and how the larger public feels about the issue, by
Raju Adhikari (kp 08/11/2019), Cashing
in on the international hemp wave: It’s a superfood,
it’s used in oil, shampoo and even toothpastes—the
marijuana look-alike is proving a profitable business
here in Nepal too, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
08/11/2019)
Dietary
supplements are banned in Nepal but they are still a fad
among people: The drug regulator says it will hold a
meeting with Nepal Medical Council to discuss ways to
discourage doctors from prescribing such supplements,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 27/10/2019)
29
people arrested in last one month for possessing illegal
drugs: According to police, illegal prescription drugs
are being smuggled into Nepal via India in large
quantities of late, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
27/10/2019)
‘Doctors
at BPKIHS prescribing food supplements unnecessarily to
patients’, by Rohit Rai (rep 20/10/2019)
DDA
lacks equipment to test impurity in prescription drug
Ranitidine (ht 16/10/2019)
Market
aflush with ayurvedic medicines containing heavy metals
in excessive amounts: Doctors say an excessive amount of
heavy metals—arsenic, lead, and mercury—can affect a
patient’s kidney, liver, skin, and blood circulation
directly and can also lead to death, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 14/10/2019)
Over
a dozen arrested in the Capital in the last one month
for possessing illegal drugs: Narcotics bureau says
cases of illegal prescription drugs have been on the
rise, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 06/10/2019)
Hospital
bans prescription of antioxidant drugs and nutritional
supplements for cancer patients: Most doctors prescribe
them even though the products are of no use for cancer
patients, experts say, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
26/09/2019)
Government
set to allow import of medicines used in critical care:
Health facilities face shortage of medicines needed for
high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, heart and kidney
ailments, among others, by Arjun Poudel (kp
23/09/2019)
Shortage
of essential medicines in Parsa health posts affects
services: Treatment for minor ailments such as viral
fever, diarrhoea, skin and ear infections is a challenge,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 10/09/2019)
Pharmacies
operating illegally in Jajarkot district (ht
21/08/2019)
Medicinal
herbs gain ground in Gorkha: Forest office aims to turn
the area into a sustainable farming zone, by Hariram
Uprety (kp 16/07/2019)
Presence
of microbes in some Ayurvedic products is high, drug
regulatory body says: Manufacturers argue the protocol
enforced by the regulator is too strict, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 08/07/2019)
Make
your own medicines: Nepal relies on India to fulfill its
medicine requirement. Overreliance on foreign suppliers
for vital medicines could be disastrous for Nepal in
case of national health crisis, by Samrat Baral (rep
04/07/2019)
Sale
of banned pain relievers rampant, drug monitors say: The
Narcotics Control Bureau has confiscated such drugs in
huge quantities in recent months from different
parts of the country, by Arjun Poudel (kp
02/07/2019)
Nepal
missing opportunity to earn from local herbs, by
Narhari Sapkota (rep 26/05/2019)
Free
distribution of herbal medicine attracts large number of
patients (rep 12/05/2019)
Patients
deprived of essential drugs at state-run health
facilities across the country: Most local and provincial
governments have failed to purchase medicines on time,
resulting in the unavailability of drugs, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 09/05/2019)
Huge
cache of prescription drugs seized, 16 persons arrested
(ht 29/04/2019)
Medicinal
and
aromatic plants’ potential remains untapped, experts say:
Stakeholders call for improving processing and marketing
to make them reach the global market, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 27/04/2019)
Local
governments purchase essential drugs without quality checks,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 17/04/2019)
The
way to do drugs: The quality of drugs and their prices both
require serious government oversight (kp 17/04/2019)
Up
to
400pc price variation found in same generic medicines of
different brands: Department of Drug Administration says it
was unaware of price variation, by Arjun Poudel (kp
16/04/2019)
Regulator
names 30 drugs for import ban: Domestic manufacturers vow to
supply quality drugs at reasonable price, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 06/03/2019)
Smuggling
of prescription drugs to valley continues unabated (ht
17/02/2019)
Drug
agency bans sale and distribution of 16 medicines,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 08/02/2019)
City
lacks
doctors to run its free drug programme: A well-intended plan
to distribute free medicines to the needy stuck in procedural
tangle, by Arjun Poudel (kp 31/01/2019)
Ministry
to bring special plan for pharmaceuticals (kp 08/01/2019)
Maharajgunj
Medical
Campus to have drug quality test centre: The centre will
enusre the quality of generic medicines by
testing them on healthy human volunteers, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 31/12/2018)
Growing
money: It’s time we realise the economic potential of the
medicinal plant sector, by Dipesh Pyakurel and Carsten
Smith-Hall (kp 28/11/2018)
Medicine
shortage in Gaushala (kp 28/10/2018)
‘Potential
of Nepali herbal products still untapped’ (kp 17/10/2018)
Anti-malarial
drug gathering dust (ht 11/10/2018)
Generics
Vs. Branded Medicines, by Uttam Maharjan (rn 13/09/2018)
Harsh
penalty set for sale of expired drugs (ht 18/08/2018)
Medicines
locked in storage while patients suffer in remote districts,
by Arjun Shah (kp 15/08/2018)
Centre
raises
Ayurvedic drugs norms: Department of Drug Administration
orders ayurvedic drugs manufacturers to comply with two key
industry standards, by Nayak Paudel (kp 04/08/2018)
Drug
shortage hits Karnali districts (kp 02/08/2018)
Shortage
of anti-rabies vaccines hits hospitals across country
(ht 03/05/2018)
Police
arrest erring medical store owners (ht 21/04/2018)
Drug
shortage hits health facilities hard (ht 19/04/2018)
Medicine shortage in far-flung districts (rep
10/04/2018)
Province
7 reels under shortage of essential drugs, by Mohan
Budhair (kp 10/03/2018)
State-owned
Nepal Drugs to launch new product monthly (kp
28/02/2018)
Need
to
pay for free drugs for 90 more days: No stocks of
many drugs in all districts; Most district
facilities running without essential drugs like
Paracetamol and ORS, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (ht
27/02/2018)
NDL
to start commercial production of cetamol (ht
23/02/2018), NDL
begins commercial production of paracetamol (ht
27/02/2018)
Indian
firm to produce anti-cancer drug in Nepal, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 20/02/2018)
Outbreak:
Jajarkot is becoming the disease capital of the
country due to shortage of medicines, by Binod
Rayamajhee and Sagar Aryal (kp 13/02/2018)
Medicine
shortage in Myagdi health posts (kp 06/02/2018)
Stocks
of up to 60 drug items nil at 5 regional stores, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 01/02/2018)
Drug
storage facilities to be set up in all provinces (ht
25/01/2018)
Bajhang
reeling under shortage of medicines, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 16/01/2018)
Parsa
DAO takes action against pharmacies running illegally
(ht 13/01/2018)
DDA
recalls 22 medicines (ht 11/01/2018)
Medicine
shortage hits Bajura health facilities (ht
09/01/2018)
Medicine
crunch hits health facilities in Rolpa, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 07/01/2018)
DPHOs
to get extra funds (ht 02/01/2018)
Capital
flooded with illegal aphrodisiacs: None of the drugs
registered with Dept of Drug Administration (kp
02/01/2017), Near
half Nepali drugs manufacturers operate illegally
(with list), by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 02/01/2018)
Shortage
of essential medicines looms over Province 1 districts
(kp 29/12/2017)
NDL
to produce paracetamol from January third week (ht
27/12/2017), Nepal
Drugs to produce Cetamol from mid-Jan (kp
28/12/2017)
Some
drugs supplied by govt, pvt sector are substandard: NHRC,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 26/12/2017), Health
Ministry downplays NHRC drugs report, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 28/12/2017)
Banke:
Procurement delay causes chronic shortage of medicines,
by Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 25/12/2017)
Panel
suggests govt buy drugs from int’l firms (kp
14/11/2017)
Drug
shortage hits Jajarkot patients hard (ht 05/11/2017)
Drug
shortage in Udayapur as local bodies ‘fail to release
funds’, by Dilliram Khatiwada (kp 01/11/2017)
Private
pharmacies to stay put in govt hospitals (ht
29/10/2017)
‘Lack
of raw materials affecting production of herbal
medicines’ (ht 23/10/2017)
Shortage
of essential drugs hits Province 7 (ht 09/10/2017),
Medicine
shortage hits Baitadi health institutions, by Bira
Gadal (rep 09/10/2017)
Villagers
walk three hours for a paracetamol, by DB Budha (rep
08/10/2017)
Medicine
crunch in Province 7 (ht 04/08/2017)
Reduce
Price
Of Medicines To Save Lives, by Geha Nath Khanal and
Resham Bahadur Khatri (rn 01/07/2017)
Double
trouble:
The abuse of pharmaceutical drugs has emerged as a major
problem in recent years, by Apil R. Bohara (kp
25/06/2017), Irrational,
unnecessary
use of medicines rampant (ht 26/06/2017)
Cetamol
production
to resume from Sept: NDL (kp 24/06/2017)
Pharma
producers
hail ban on import of 37 medicines (kp 23/05/2017),
Govt must
support local drug companies: APPON (rep 23/05/2017)
Govt
to buy drugs for its hospitals in bid to slash prices:
Private sector charging up to 2,200 pc higher than
company prices, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep
20/05/2017)
Drug
importers' protest draws flak (rep 15/05/2017)
Government
planning
to import medicines (ht 14/05/2017)
DoDA
inspecting
pharmacies in eastern region (kp 02/05/2017)
Inexpensive
medicines
high on govt agenda, says health minister Thapa (ht
06/04/2017)
Mass
drug
administration drive to begin (ht 14/03/2017)
Drugs
crunch
hits Parsa health centres (ht 15/02/2017)
Bajhang
DAO
seals five pharmacies in Chainpur: Inspection team finds
none of the pharmacies had obtained operation licence;
Pharmacists also guilty of over-prescribing medicines to
make quick money, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
09/02/2017)
Rukum
health
posts reeling under medicines shortage (kp
05/02/2017)
Encourage
domestic
drug manufacturers: Minister Karki (ht 04/02/2017)
Drug
shortage
in Solukhumbu:
Even the District Public Health Office is reeling under
medicine shortage (ht 03/02/2017)
Bad
medicine:
Free medicine scheme of govt vital to improving the
health of the population (kp 03/02/2017)
Govt
struggling
to ease drugs shortage: Health Minister Gagan Thapa says
procurement process has been eased for the purchase
of necessary medicine (kp 02/02/2017)
Drugs
crunch
hits patients (ht 02/02/2017)
Myagdi
folk
face shortage of life-saving Medicines, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 25/01/2017)
Essential
drugs
in short supply in Saptari health facilities (ht
19/01/2017)
Essential
medicines to be available in districts soon: District
hospitals provide 70 items of medicines free of cost
(rep 17/01/2017)
Medicine
shortage
in Kalikot for past 2 years, by Tularam Pandey (kp
09/01/2017)
Ramechhap
facing
drug crunch (ht 09/01/2017)
Private
drugs
sellers’ syndicate blocks procurement for hospital
pharmacy, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 03/01/2017)
Shortage
of
Drugs in Doti (kp 31/12/2016)
Smuggling
of
medicinal herbs to China on the rise (ht 31/12/2016)
Tanahun
DHO
purchases medicines after MoH failed to supply them
(ht 20/12/2016)
Illegal
medicinal
herbs seized (ht 13/12/2016)
Bajura
health
facilities under acute drugs shortage (ht
13/12/2016)
No
paracetamol at govt hospitals in 14 districts: No iron
tablets in Nuwakot, Tanahun, Achham, Baitadi; Hospitals
in Siraha, Bara, Dhanusha, Achham without antibiotics,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 12/12/2016)
Free
drugs not available in Jhapa, by Raju Adhikari (rep
08/12/2016)
Shortage
of
BCG syringes in Farwest, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
30/11/2016)
Initiative
launched
to increase people’s access to high-quality medicine
(ht 26/11/2016)
Shortage
of
essential medicines in Palpa (kp 23/11/2016)
DDA
to
check essential drugs’ quality (ht 10/11/2016)
Govt
to
study 10 medicinal plants for conservation (kp
04/11/2016)
‘Government
promoting
black market for drugs’ (ht 24/10/2016)
LMD
struggling
to dispose of expired drugs: The medicines were brought
after last year’s quakes (kp 18/10/2016)
Drugs
crunch
to persist with licences of three manufacturers suspended:
Many urban poor will be deprived of essential drugs if
they are not distributed free of cost, by Arjun Poudel
(ht 18/10/2016)
DDA
directed
to inspect pharmacies (kp 18/10/2016)
Nepal
likely
to face shortage of injectable polio vaccine, by
Manish Gautam (kp 03/10/2016)
No
free
medicine service for Far West: NHRC (kp 30/09/2016)
MoH
set
to revise essential drugs list (ht 26/09/2016)
Medicine
crunch
hits far-west (ht 21/09/2016)
Medicine
shortage:
Ministry warns of stern action (kp 18/09/2016)
Medicine
shortage
in Farwest (kp 11/09/2016)
Districts
in
the Midwest hit by medicine shortage, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam (kp 03/09/2016)
Police
recover
contraband drugs from BPKIHS (kp 03/09/2016)
Essential
drugs
shortage in Siraha: District Health Office says the
shortage started last year during the border blockade and
is getting worse (kp 01/09/2016)
Shortage
of
essential medicines in Mugu, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
19/08/2016)
Illegally
run
medical stores closed, licenses scrapped in Tanahun
(ht 08/08/2016)
Free
of cost medicine distribution scheme ineffective (rep
06/08/2016)
‘Restricted
drugs
being sold sans prescription’ (kp 28/07/2016)
Supply
Dept
seals three drug outlets: These shops have been found
charging exorbitant prices and selling contrabands
(kp 08/07/2016)
Erratic
power
supply affects vaccination: Vaccines worth Rs 2 million
damaged, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 26/04/2016)
Banke
reels
under acute shortage of medicines, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 17/06/2016)
Bajura
reeling
under medicine shortage (ht 01/06/2016), Acute
medicine
crisis hits Bajura, by Krishna Oli (rep 04/06/2016)
Four
years
on, subsidized pharmacies yet to materialize (rep
13/05/2016)
Pharmacies
‘flouting’
drug dispensing rules (kp 12/05/2016), Pharmacies
selling
drugs sans prescription raided (ht 12/05/2016)
Demand
for
local herbal products up, by Sudip Kaini (kp
11/03/2016)
Medicinal
herbs
worth Rs400 million exported: Bajhang shipped out 296 kg
of yarsagumba valued at Rs390m in the past seven months,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 04/03/2016)
Bajhang
faces
drugs shortage, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
15/02/2016)
DJPL
to
invest Rs600m in production of new drugs (kp
28/01/2016)
Darchula,
Parbat
reel under medicine crisis, by Manoj Badu (kp
18/01/2016)
Emergency
drugs
purchase: Govt’s fast-track process hits snag over high
price (kp 03/01/2016)
Govt
begins
drugs procurement process (kp 25/12/2015), Drug
crunch
hits far-west hill districts (ht 25/12/2015)
Give
it
a shot: Local production of medicines should be included
in the national development agenda, by Shiva Raj
Mishra (kp 15/12/2015)
MoHP
to
fast-track drugs import (kp 09/12/2015)
Essential
drugs:
Ministry okays fast-track procurement paper (kp
10/12/2015)
Govt
to
distribute stored drugs meant for disaster (kp
12/11/2015)
NMA
concerned
about shortage of medicine (ht 08/11/2015)
Ramechhap
reeling
under shortage of drugs (ht 05/11/2015)
Shortage
of
drugs hits patients in several districts (kp
01/11/2015)
Availability
of
herbs declining (ht 20/10/2015)
Acute
drug
crisis hits health facilities nationwide (rep
13/10/2015)
Dearth
of
medicine hits health services, by Shankar Acharya
and Manoj Paudel (ht 08/10/2015)
Promoting
Medicinal Herbs And Food, by Jeevan K. Prasain (rn
24/07/2015)
Free
medicines
found on sale at private clinics (rep 11/07/2015)
Medicine
crunch
hits VDCs in Doti hard (ht 19/06/2015)
Medicine
shortage
as dealers remain closed, by Suman Bashyal (kp
16/05/2015)
Pharmacy
graduates
rent out certificates to dispensaries, by Arjun Poudel
(rep 11/04/2015)
Unvaled
urchins:
Overharvesting od medicinal plants to meet global needs
habe put them on the brink, by Bhairav Raj Kaini (ht
30/03/2015)
Domestic
medicines
gain mkt share as imports drop, by Binod Bhandari (kp
29/03/2015)
How
effective
are govt-distributed drugs?, by Arjun Poudel (rep
07/02/2015)
Govt
supplied
free medicines elude Karnali folks, by DB Budha (rep
02/02/2015)
Ramechhap
yet
to get govt’s free medicine (ht 18/01/2015)
Drug
crunch
affects far-west government health facilities (ht
16/01/2015) |