Sagar Budhathoki

Mar 16, 2024 | nepalitimes.com | Sagar Budhathoki

Nepal has an over-supply of nurses, but nursing positions at hospitals are vacant because of low pay and overwork17 March 2024Ritu got her nursing licence in 2017 and started working at a hospital in Bansbari for a monthly salary of Rs15,000. She had a heavy workload, had no overtime pay and could not always get a day off.   Two years into her job, Ritu’s brother fell ill and she took two days’ leave to go to Pokhara to care for him.

Jan 27, 2024 | nepalitimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org | Sagar Budhathoki

In 2009, Samir Lama completed his MBBS and then passed all three stages of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), making him eligible to practice in the US. However, he returned to Nepal in a year, opting to serve his own people instead. Lama pursued a three-year residency in General Medical Practice at the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu sponsored by the Nick Simons Institute and was later placed at the District Hospital in Piuthan under a three-year contract.

Dec 25, 2023 | cijnepal.org.np | Sagar Budhathoki

Misuse of pesticides is becoming a major reason for deaths in Nepal. Research shows that the public health crisis caused by the government’s ignorance has already become too late to stop. Sagar Budhathoki |CIJ NepalThe Poison Information Centre of the TU Teaching Hospital received a phone call regarding an unconscious three month old child who had ingested Potassium Phosphate. Two months ago, the child was taken to a local clinic in Ilam after undeliberately consuming the chemical used in farming.

Nov 6, 2023 | nepalitimes.com | Sagar Budhathoki

Families of those killed in the earthquake wait for family members abroad to perform funeral rites07 November 2023It has been three days, and survivors of the 3 November earthquake in Kolchaur village have been waiting for kin to return from abroad so they can perform the cremation rites of those who died. When the earthquake hit just before midnight on Friday, six people all from the same family, lost their lives here, buried when their home collapsed.

Nov 5, 2023 | nepalitimes.com | Sagar Budhathoki

Nepal’s latest earthquake leaves hundreds of shocked families waiting desperately for relief06 November 2023Shock turned to grief, and now it is accompanied by hunger and cold. Complicated logistics and bureaucracy has meant that relief material has not yet reached the village of Chiuri in Jajarkot that was devastated by the midnight earthquake of 3 November.   Thirteen of those killed in just this one village were cremated in a collective funeral by the banks of Bheri down the mountain on Sunday.