KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Bir Hospital has suspended surgeries due to a shortage of essential materials, resulting in the cancellation of scheduled operations on Monday, as reported by hospital sources in Kathmandu on February 12.

KATHMANDU, Feb 8: Everyone wants to look attractive. But some are born with facial deformities and some are due to injuries.

KATHMANDU, Jan 20: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an interim order not to block the necessary budget for Bir Hospital.

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has directed the stakeholders to ensure that patients coming to the Bir Hospital, the oldest hospital of the country, seeking treatment will have no complaints about its services. He described the Bir Hospital as the pillar of the country’s health sector.

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Mammogram, a device operated for screening breast cancer, has come into operation at the Bir Hospital recently.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: Mammogram, a device operated for screening breast cancer, has come into operation at the Bir Hospital recently.

KATHMANDU, Dec 31: Bir Hospital (National Academy of Medical Sciences) is in an extreme financial crisis.

KATHMANDU, Dec 28: The gas company which supplies medical oxygen to Bir Hospital has sent a warning letter to the hospital after it failed to clear past dues for oxygen supply for a long time.

KATHMANDU, Dec 19: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an interim order to reinstate Santosh Paudel, director of the Bir Hospital.

KATHMANDU, Dec 6: Dr Santosh Paudel, a director of Bir Hospital, has filed a case at the Supreme Court (SC) for legal action after being removed from the post. A letter was sent to Director Paudel to appear at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) from December 1 on the instructions of Health and Population Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet.

KATHMANDU, Nov 17: The CT scan service has been affected due to lack of X-ray films at Bir Hospital.

KATHMANDU, Sep 4: In an incident at Bir Hospital, a man, approximately 40 years old, tragically lost his life by jumping off the sixth floor of the surgical building. The hospital's Information Officer Sagar Mishra provided details of the unfortunate event.

KATHMANDU, August 3: On Tuesday, Chandra Kumar Rai, 55, of Solukhumbu, underwent gallbladder surgery at Bir Hospital. However, he had to wait seven months for the surgery.

KATHMANDU, July 23: The Ministry of Health and Population has issued a directive to the National Academy of Medical Sciences to depute long-term health workers and employees from the National Institute of Medical Sciences to designated posting areas.

KATHMANDU, July 17: Bir Hospital and the National Trauma Center have started the Out Patient Department (OPD) service from 8AM today onwards. Earlier, the OPD service would begin from 9AM.

KATHMANDU, June 24: The Bir Hospital has decided to turn its 700 general beds into 'free beds' beginning from Friday.

KATHMANDU, May 12: Snoring problem? Now you can seek treatment for this common embarrassing condition. Bir Hospital, the oldest government health facility, has been providing treatment for snoring. People with snoring problems are under observation at a 'sleep lab' where their severity and frequency of snoring is recorded over several nights.

KATHMANDU, May 1: Anuma Shrestha, a 34-year-old staff nurse who worked at Bir Hospital was found dead in a house in Balaju’s Bohoratar on Saturday evening.

KATHMANDU, April 30: A nurse employed at Bir Hospital in Kathmandu has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in Balaju, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, March 14: Bir Hospital has fired five staff nurses from service for being absent without leave (AWOL).

KATHMANDU, Feb 18: Bir Hospital is going to operate ‘Burn Ward’ within some months.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: One of the patient’s relatives has accused Bir Hospital for medical negligence after the doctors at the hospital said that the donor's kidney was not suitable for transplantation during the time of surgery.

KATHMANDU, August 7: Nepali Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Bhimsen Das Pradhan has said that the service-seekers have to face various obstacles and problems at Bir Hospital.

KATHMANDU, July 26: A tumor weighing 1 kg that grew on a woman's head has been surgically removed at the National Academy of Medical Sciences Bir Hospital. The tumor on the head of 37-year-old Pramisha Sherpa of Ramechhap was surgically removed by the neurosurgery department of the hospital on Monday.

KATHMANDU, April 15: Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Uma Regmi has been undergoing treatment for head injury at Bir Hospital since Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, May 15: The Bir Hospital is unable to use its new hospital block due to the shortage of medical oxygen.

KATHMANDU, April 29: Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Federal Council of Janata Samajwadi Party Baburam Bhattarai is undergoing a neuro-endocrine tumor surgery.

KATHMANDU, Dec 3: Staffers at Nepal’s premier health institution, Bir Hospital, have continued their protest for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday demanding the fulfilment of promises made earlier to provide them with incentives and proper safety equipment during the work.

KATHMANDU, Nov 24: Agitating doctors, health officials, and staffers at Bir Hospital in Kathmandu have obstructed senior officials at the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) from entering the hospital.

KATHMANDU, Nov 5: A total of 16 doctors at the emergency department of Bir Hospital resigned en masse as the hospital management failed to fulfill their demands.

Refuting media reports about the alleged encroachment of Nepali territory by China in Humla district, the government said that there is no disputes over territory between Nepal and China. Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Gyawali, who is also the government's spokesperson, said a similar news about land encroachment from Chinese side in Limi village in Humla district had surfaced four years ago as well. He said that an inter-ministerial team after the field inspection had concluded that the said buildings were located approximately one kilometer inside the Chinese territory from the Nepal-China border. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), in a separate statement, further said the boundary between Nepal and China was delineated and demarcated based on the Boundary Treaty and Boundary Protocols signed between the two countries.

Hospital authority urges people not to believe in rumors, illegal organ procurement

Hospital authority urges people not to believe in rumors, illegal organ procurement

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: The government has decided to develop Bir Hospital as the dedicated hospital for treatment of Covid-19 patients.

KATHMANDU, June 19: Ex-Gandaki Boarding Students’ Association (EGBOSA), Kathmandu, has provided medical supplies to Bir Hospital and National Trauma Center for the prevention of COVID-19 pandemic.

KATHMANDU, April 12: The Ministry of Health and Population has informed that the Kathmandu-based Bir Hospital has started testing of swab samples of COVID-19 suspects from Saturday.

KATHMANDU, March 31: The coronavirus test reports of the two patients who passed away amidst the isolation care at Bir hospital have turned out negative, the hospital sources said today.

KATHMANDU, March 30: Two suspected coronavirus patients died in course of treatment in Bir Hospital, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, July 28: Although the construction of a new 100-bed building of the country's old hospital, Bir Hospital, was completed two weeks ago, it has not come into operation in a lack of staffers to run the building and render the services.

KATHMANDU, July 12: The newly-constructed buildings of Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital and Bir Hospital were handed over to the government on Friday. The buildings have been built with the financial assistance of the Japanese government.

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: Two people have been killed whereas one injured as the cable of construction lift breaks at Bir Hospital.

KATHMANDU, Feb 5: Even as the country marked World Cancer Day on Monday, hundreds of cancer patients visiting Bir Hospital remain hard hit as the country's biggest hospital has failed to install its new radiotherapy machine, which was brought to Nepal back in May.

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KATHMANDU, Nov 18: The oldest hospital in the country, Bir Hospital, is in the process of getting a separate well-equipped building for surgery within the next two years. The proposed nine-storey building will have 15 operation theatres.