KATHMANDU, Dec 9: A total of 45 nurses have been selected for jobs in the UK, marking the first time such an opportunity has arisen for Nepali nurses.

KATHMANDU, Oct 16: National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) has created 63 new posts for nurses and paramedics.

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

KATHMANDU, August 22: Nepal and the United Kingdom (UK) on Monday signed an agreement which has paved the way for sending Nepali nurses to the UK for job placement.

LONDON, Jan 24: It will take another year to complete the process of bringing nurses to the United Kingdom by signing a labor agreement between the Government of Nepal and the UK Government.

GENEVA, Dec 11: The numbers of nurses around the world are falling further just as the Omicron coronavirus spreads, and there is a also an imbalance as Western countries step up recruitment of healthcare workers from African and other poorer countries, the International Council of Nurses said on Friday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: The government has said it is initiating a process to send 10,000 nurses to the United Kingdom amid growing concerns about alternative employment opportunities in countries other than the Gulf and Malaysia.

INDIA, May 4: India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.

KATHMANDU, May 12: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba have extended their best wishes to nurses on the occasion of the International Nurses Day.

KATHMANDU, May 17: Instead of addressing the demands of the agitating nurses, the police arrested 10 nurses on Friday morning.

KATHMANDU, May 17: Nurses of Shahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Center are on their 22nd day of strike and seventh day of hunger strike demanding permanent status. However, the government has not heeded their demand.

KATHMANDU, May 12: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Gokarna Bista has vowed to take action against the hospitals promoting labor exploitation of nurses.

DHARAN, March 17: Hari Kumari Rai, a nursing supervisor at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), says that she 'does not have time even to breathe.'

DHANGADHI, Jan 19: Patients in Dhangadhi and neighboring districts have been struggling in lack of treatment as nurses and health workers of Seti Zonal Hospital (SZH) have been staging protests since a few days against the low pay and perks.

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: The government and agitating Nepal Nursing Council reached an 11-point agreement on Thursday.

DHANGADHI, Jan 18: Patients in Dhangadhi and neighboring districts have been struggling in lack of treatment as nurses and health workers of Seti Zonal Hospital (SZH) have been staging protests since a few days against the low pay and perks.

KATHMANDU, Jan 17: Around 200 nurses have resigned from their jobs in the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital ( TUTH) in the past three years in pursuit of better opportunities and career abroad.

JUMLA, Jan 17: Protesting against their low pay, the nurses of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS) and Teaching Hospital have been boycotting their duties for three hours a day.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: The Nursing Association of Nepal (NAN), the umbrella organization of nurses across the country, has threatened of a nationwide protest presenting a 11-point demand including a demand for salary hike for nurses and reinstatement of three nurses who were sacked by the government from the Human Organ Transplant Centre (HOTC), Bhaktapur.

KATHMANDU, Jan 28:  While Nepal marked the Nurses Day on Friday, nurses working in private hospitals of the country are forced to work for nominal salaries, depriving them of the basic pay scales of government hospitals.