Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission told the NewsHour that at least 150 people sold their kidney from a single village in the Kavre District, but only three cases were officially reported.
This paper attempts to explain three broad trends that underpinned the relationship between the state, market, and healthcare: first, the state is moving away from its health provider role to a regulator role, which involves shifting the resources, authority, and responsibility to diverse public and private actors. Second, in the name of the pandemic, the state has opened up