A 20-year-old woman with relapsed leukaemia has received the treatment at TU Teaching Hospital. Doctors are monitoring her response.
Health officials have indefinitely stalled vaccination in three flood-hit districts, warning that displaced children face a heightened risk of infectious disease outbreaks.
Proposal follows public outrage over a poor woman forced to give birth on a pavement outside Rajbiraj hospital after her husband could not afford blood tests.
Experts warn that due to frequent movement of people to and from Nepal, the country is at high risk of any outbreak spreading from any corner of the world.
The disease has spread to several local units since emerging in Darma Rural Municipality in July, with 606 people testing positive and nine deaths reported.
The position at the WHO’s South-East Asia regional office has been vacant since Saima Wazed, daughter of former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, resigned.
Local maternity clinics and services remain disrupted in Rasuwa and Nuwakot since the August 26 floods. But many women cannot travel to Kathmandu because of damaged roads.
Nearly 600 people have tested positive as the disease spreads to eight local units, prompting a central health investigation.
Children are particularly vulnerable to rabies, while misconceptions about puppies can delay lifesaving treatment.
Fifty-four people tested positive in two days as confirmed cases rise to 114 in Darma Rural Municipality.
Health workers have begun door-to-door testing and treatment as two to five people test positive each day in the rural municipality.
Food is running out in villages cut off after the Bhotekoshi flood swept away bridges.
Immunisation experts urge authorities to vaccinate everyone above 30, citing a shift in the age group at risk and a high risk of fatality among unvaccinated people.
More than 100 people have tested positive in Darma Rural Municipality, with health facilities detecting three to four new cases a day.
More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.
A woman giving birth on a pavement outside a government hospital after her husband could not afford Rs3,200 in tests exposes the gap between Nepal’s free maternity care and access to emergency healthcare.
Damaged roads have made hospitals difficult to reach for the affected, including pregnant women.
Officials mull cholera vaccination for around 100,000 vulnerable people and measles vaccine for over 75,000 children.
Experts urge nationwide vaccination to protect vulnerable populations as the outbreak has gripped all provinces.
Sayal Rai has spent more than two years on a ventilator after JE left him severely disabled. The disease has killed at least 21 people across Nepal over the past six weeks.
