Chhatra Karki

Twitter: @chhatrakarki

In rural Nepal, an ultrasound machine builds community trust in health care

Good diagnostics build health care relationships. Good relationships help expand vaccination coverage, Chhatra Karki finds.

2 Apr 2024

6 min read

Maternal and child health Innovation

Local women of Ajayameru rural Municipality attended an ultrasound check-up at a health camp in the village. Credit: Chhatra Karki

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Providing vaccine information to the mothers group in Helambu, Sindhupalchowk. Credit: Janak Karki

How a major typhoid vaccine campaign helped Nepal find missed-out “zero-dose” kids

27 Nov 2023

5 min read

Zero-dose children Vaccine campaigns Typhoid

Mothers bring their children to a health post in Dharan for vaccination. Credit: Chhatra Karki.

Severe pneumonia in retreat since PCV jab, say Nepal health workers

10 Nov 2023

6 min read

Meena Luhar, 26, gave a birth to a child en route to the Sadani health post, Parshuram, Dadeldhura. Credit: Rekha Bhattarai.

Monsoon maternity: when the roads are washed out but the baby won’t wait

25 Oct 2023

5 min read

Dr. Bibeka Shrestha, a Clinical Consultant affiliated with the USAID Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS), presents a paper on Influence of Gender Inequality on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Kathmandu. Credit : MTaPS

How gender inequality drives drug resistance in Nepal

15 Sep 2023

5 min read

Antimicrobial resistance Gender equality

Organising a sickle cell disease awareness program in Rajapur, Bardia, Nepal. Credit : Rajan Pande

Nepali community burdened with high rates of sickle-cell anaemia seek support

22 Aug 2023

6 min read

Bali Raj Budha, a public health inspector from Mugum Karmarong Rural Municipality, providing dental treatments at the Saturday Mobile Clinic. Credit: Chhorden Sangnu Lama

Weekend warrior: the Nepalese health worker spending Saturdays trekking to cut-off villages

4 Jul 2023

5 min read

Routine immunisation

Kabita Chaudhari, senior health worker from Dhola Health Post in Jwalamukhi Rural Municipality, Dhading, on her way to the vaccination booth, carrying her ice-packed vaccine carrier. Credit : Chhatra Karki

4% too many: Nepal sets its sights on finding and protecting its cohort of unvaccinated kids

23 Jun 2023

6 min read

Vaccine campaigns Zero-dose children

Patients at Jajarkot Hospital. Credit: Rajendra Karki

Summer surge: warming weather in Nepal sees rise in deadly diarrhoea

3 May 2023

5 min read

Health workers of Namkha Health Post in Humla district walking on the snowy road with vaccine carrier. Credit : Lundup Dorje Lama

Snow-capped peaks and ice-lined refrigerators: extending the cold chain far into Nepal’s Himalayas

20 Mar 2023

6 min read

Public Health Inspector Bali Raj Budha provides mental health counseling to villagers in Karmarong, Nepal. Credit: Bali Raj Budha

Nepal reckons with COVID-19’s steep toll on mental health

20 Jan 2023

6 min read

Dr Kami Temba Sherpa with mothers and infants at Kunde Hospital. Credit : Chhatra Karki

Meet the Sherpa doctor of Nepal

30 Nov 2022

6 min read

Country stories

A man spraying anti-mosquito spray in Kathmandu. Credit: @sulav_photo

Climate change threatens mountainous Nepal with a spike in dengue infections

10 Nov 2022

5 min read

Climate change Dengue

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