One study has shown 79% of respondents purchase antibiotics directly over the counter in Nepal: one potential reason behind surging antimicrobial resistance in the country.
Communities in Nepal combined sanitation awareness campaigns with routine immunisation during the pandemic. It might just have helped them keep COVID-19 under control.
Having vaccinated over 80% of its population, Nepal is prioritising children five and above, and the unvaccinated, to head off a possible fourth wave of COVID-19.
Kunde Hospital sits 4,000m above sea level in the Nepalese Himalayas. Set up by Sir Edmund Hillary 50 years ago, today it is saving – and changing – lives.