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Over the recent years increasing number of  private hospitals have cropped up around the country ... Even though the number of hospital beds have increased over the years, access to affordable healthcare still remain  a challenge..... Economist Kancha sees   tremendous opportunities to invest in heath care sector- particularly in single specialty chain and diagnostic laboratories.   Why Potential Investors should look into investing  in ----- Single Specialty Afforable Chains of Dailysis centers  one in every 10 Nepali people suffers from kidney problem and around 27,000 patients need renal transplants  There are only 140 dialysis machines in 25 hospitals and private clinics across the country, which are able to provide the service to only around 1,000 kidney patients. Click here to see  interesting healthcare  business model...

Ambulance demand in Kathmandu- " According to a study by Patan Hospital, of patients arriving at emergency rooms, only 10% arrive by ambulance. 54% arrive by taxi. only 10% of them arrive by ambulance." Social and economic consequences - " Recent estimates from the Nepal Community Emergency Preparedness Group concluded that Nepal loses about 530,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) per year to injury. By projecting current trends, injuries are estimated to become the 3rd most common cause of DALY loss in Nepal by 2020, as compared to the 9th most common cause currently." Source: NAS Website , Picture Source: Nepali Times What is Nepal Ambulance Service (NAS) ? " NAS is an independent non-profit initiative which offers ambulances equipped with specialised life-saving equipment and trained emergency medical technicians in Kathmandu and Patan. NAS's dispatch center provides emergency pre-arrival instructions and there are 14 on-cal...

According to Ramdeep Saha, the Chief of Department of Environmental Sanitation and Natural Disaster Management, only 43 percent families in Nepal have toilets. Considering this, the government has recently unveiled a master plan on sanitation with a view to providing the people with the basic sanitation facility (toilets) by 2017. It may be noted that the government in coordination with other organisations has been operating sanitation programmes in two districts, 232 VDCs, four municipalities, one sub-metropolis and many Click to read more

What Sucks ? Ambulances operated by various cooperatives and social organizations in the capital are charging excessive fares. “As per the rules, an ambulance can charge only Rs 20 per kilometer from patients,” Indira Pandey, focal person of the committee, said adding, “But ambulances are charging patients as much as they can.” Click here to read more Solution ??? To learn about the pricing strategy of dial1298,start watching the clip from 3 minutes....... interesting revenue stream ,however, I not sure how they deal with the "free rider problem" ??

Problem : KATHMANDU, March 29: Police apprehended four people for administering fake hepatitis B vaccine to the public in Boudha following the tip-off from the District Public Health Office (DPHO), Kathmandu. DPHO Chief Bisho Ram Shrestha said the police have handed over the quack vaccinators to Kathmandu District Administration Office for punishment. Claiming such vaccines can have disastrous impact on human health, Shrestha said, "Preventing fake vaccinators from selling unapproved vaccines has become a major challenge for us." According to DPHO, all vaccines must have quality approval from World Health Organization (WHO) before being administered. Likewise, vaccines must also get approval from the Department of the Drug Administration (DDA). The vaccines administered by the arrested vaccinators had approval from neither of the agencies. Click here to read more Solution??????????????? Sproxil is combatting the global counterfeit drug market through a MobileProduct Authent...

Problem: "M any public health centers in the rural areas of the country have remained without doctors for several months. Reportedly, 54 health centers in 36 districts and some district hospitals are without doctors as they are reluctant to practice in remote places like Mugu, Rolpa, Dolpa, and others, where living conditions are harsh and luxury a far cry. In Tahu health centre, Palpa, for instance, a doctor has remained absent from duty for 11 straight months and that too without informing the authorities. On an average, doctors remain absent from duty for as long as six months. " Click here to read more Solution ?: " Telemedicine uses ICT to "provid[e] accessible, cost-effective, high-quality health care services," in the words of a recent WHO Global Observatory for eHealth report . Telemedicine models, in which rural patients are connected to trained physicians over telephone or Internet, can become the first point of access for a variety of illnesses and d...

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In an recent article Mr.Anil Bhattarai argued " The World Bank’s mission is currently in Kathmandu as a part of the process of finalising a grant and loan for Pilot Project on Climate Resilience (PPCR). As it stands, US $60 million of the total of US $110 million proposed is supposed to be given as a loan, the rest as a grant. The putative aim of the project is to increase the resilience of Nepalis in the face of vulnerabilities arising out of changing climates. The impacts of changing climates might be too complex to understand for ordinary Nepali citizens, but most of them have done virtually nothing to cause this. To be more precise, most of us—both living at present and long dead—did not spew the colossal amount of carbon and other heat-trapping gasses into the earth that led to global warming. This makes it highly unethical to receive a loan for dealing with the impacts of climate change we had very little role in creating in the first place." (Source: kathmandu post) My...