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Celebrate Dashain from where you are: PM Oli

Posted by | Oct 26, 2020 | ,

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has extended best wishes to all the Nepali brothers and sisters at home and abroad on the occasion of Bada Dashain festival. Stating that festivals are also the basis of social arrangement, he has pointed out the need to move ahead by internalizing it. The Prime Minister has also appealed to all to observe the festival in a cost-effective and appropriate manner while also doing away with the negative activities carried out in the name of festival. “This Dashain lets celebrate it from the location where we are at the moment, considering the high risk of infection on senior citizens, children and people with underlying health condition,” the PM has said in the message. He has also shared that the ‘public tika programme’ held every year at the Prime Minister’s residence will not be held considering the risk of...

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President’s call to celebrate Dashain following social distancing

Posted by | Oct 26, 2020 | ,

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has urged all to observe the festivals by observing social distancing considering the risk of COVID-19. In a message today on the occasion of Bada Dashain festival, 2077, President Bhandari has wished all the Nepalis at home and abroad happiness, peace, prosperity, long life and continued progress, while urging all to follow the health protocol to save oneself and others from the deadly virus. The President has also expressed the confidence that the festival would help promote social unity, mutual good will and...

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Health Minister urges everyone to celebrate Dasahin maintaining safety

Posted by | Oct 26, 2020 | ,

Minister for Health and Population Bhanubhakta Dhakal has appealed to all Nepalis celebrating Dashain festival to maintain safety to remain safe from coronavirus. Giving a message of best wishes on the occasion of the Bada Dashain today, Minister Dhakal reminded the adverse situation created by the COVID-19. “The pandemic has limited us to observe Dashain staying indoors,” he said, requesting everyone to use mask, maintain physical distance and wash hands with soap from time to time or use sanitizer. He also said Dashain is the festival the Nepalis have been celebrating for long with unity and reunion and exchanges of greetings. “We need to pay attention to our health, friendship and social amity,” Minister Dhakal stressed. The Minister also shared the information that government had launched efforts to ensure healthy citizen for the realization of ‘prosperous Nepal: happy Nepali’. He also thanked all who maintained health standard set by the government. The Health Ministry, he said, is always committed to protecting the lives of citizens. “The Ministry is aware that right to health is mentioned as citizen’s fundamental rights in the constitution, which the government fully adheres to,” he reiterated, adding that the Ministry had made every arrangement as of test for coronavirus, treatment, medication and availability of medical resources including doctors and...

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Health Ministry issues directive to provide free treatment to needy ones

Posted by | Oct 26, 2020 | ,

The Ministry of Health and Population has directed the health institutions to provide cost-free health treatment to the people infected with COVID-19 who cannot afford to bear the expenses. Stating it would be against the principle of the hospital service and the code of conduct of health workers to deny access to health treatment to any patient for lack of medical expenses, the Ministry has instructed all the government, community, private and non-governmental hospitals and medical colleges to provide cost-free health treatment to those infected who can not bear the cost of treatment. The Ministry’s this directive comes in the context of complaints of several hospitals asking for fees while admitting the COVID-19 patients and denying health treatment services to those not able to deposit the amount and of some hospitals issuing public notice asking the patients to deposit certain amount for treatment. Ministry’s ICS coordinator Dr Gunaraj Lohani, through a press release on Sunday, stated that the hospitals themselves would be responsible if the health of the patients of the targeted groups determined by the government are denied treatment and any adverse effect is seen in their health. He has stated that the Government of Nepal provides free health treatment to the poor and indigent, helpless, disabled and the senior citizens. A self-declaration by the patient would be alone acceptable for this. Dr Lohani also made it clear...

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Heifer and eSatya all set to bring QR coded Goats!

Posted by | Oct 24, 2020 | , ,

Pragya Gyawali When was the last time you scanned a code to purchase a product? What was the last item that you purchased? When did you last purchase meat? Did you scan it? Do you wonder where the goat or the chicken came from? Which breed it was? Where did it live and in what shed conditions? Was the goat administered with vaccines timely? What is the average weight gained by the goat? Is it a healthy goat? Do you know where the meat you buy in the nearby fresh house comes from? Would you not be interested in knowing what you are consuming? Often as we go shopping, we see that the items we purchase have a barcode on them. It’s true that not always do we exactly know what information it contains because it’s the salesperson who actually scans it. Has it ever occurred to you that it hits you a little different level of satisfaction when you scan a code and you get access to all the information of that particular product? Well, to most of us it has. However, with that quick scan, we tend to believe that the product is authentic. We have been using the QR codes to make the online payments, to login to various systems from WiFi to the online games and to purchase various products as well. (Image Source: http://www.heifernepal.org/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report%202018_0.pdf)...

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