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Health insurance services suspended at Bhajani Health Center
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (148+ words) KAILALI: The health insurance program has been suspended at Bhajani Primary Health Center after the facility failed to receive reimbursement payments under the government-backed scheme, affecting beneficiaries seeking medical treatment. According to health center official Amar Singh Chaudhary, insurance coverage…...
Insurance coverage on paper, hospital bills, and debt on shoulders
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (678+ words) With insurance services cut in private hospitals, 7. 74 million insured patients face rising financial pressure and forced borrowing BIRATNAGAR: The daily routine of 84-year-old Keshar Man Shrestha of Morang, Urlabari-1, Laxmijhar, is painful these days. Prostate problems have left him bedridden…...
90% health insurance coverage and eight cricket stadiums planned under new budget
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (200+ words) Nepalnews. com 90% health insurance coverage and eight cricket stadiums planned under new budget KATHMANDU: The government has announced plans to expand health insurance coverage to 90% of the population within three years and build modern cricket stadiums in eight major cities…...
Health insurance renewals on the wane in Jumla
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (263+ words) JUMLA: The number of people renewing their health insurance in Jumla district has been declining in recent years, according to the Health Insurance Board in the district. According to Tirtharaj Joshi, Registration Officer at the Board, shared the number of…...
Household insurance turning effective in Nepalgunj
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (505+ words) JANAKI: Uttam Singh Panjabi of Nepalgunj Submetropolis-7 and his family became homeless after losing their house to the last year's rains in August-September. The family went through severe stress. The house, which the family had built after years of struggle,…...
Gandaki pays health insurance premium for PWDs
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (299+ words) GANDAKI: The Ministry of Health of Gandaki Province has paid the health insurance scheme premium for 7, 061 people including people with disabilities and kidney patients. Of these, 5, 946 are PWDs and their families and 431 are families of kidney patients, and 382 are conflict…...
Private firms fail to maintain record of fertilizers sale
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (271+ words) JHAPA: Most of the private firms in Jhapa district have been found maintaining no record of sale of chemical fertilizers. The Agriculture Knowledge Centre in the district exposed it during a market monitoring conducted on Tuesday. Such enterprises are directed…...
Mayor of Ratnanagar offers free health insurance to poor, underprivileged families from his salary, benefits
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (288+ words) CHITWAN: The Mayor of Ratnanagar Municipality, Prahlad Sapkota, has offered health insurance to 37 poor and economically underprivileged households from his salary and benefits. The beneficiaries were selected on the basis of recommendations from concerned ward offices. It is said that…...
10th Health Insurance Day today
3+ mon, 3+ hour ago (326+ words) KATHMANDU: The 10th Health Insurance Day is being celebrated today by organizing various programmes. The Day is being observed with the theme " "State Investment, Citizen's Contribution: Health Insurance Joint Campaign'. The health insurance programme is an important social security initiative introduced…...
Health insurance services based on national ID card
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (153+ words) KATHMANDU: Health insurance services are to be provided based on the national identity card from now onward. A memorandum of understanding (Mo U) was signed between Dr Krishna Prasad Paudel, Executive Director of the Health Insurance Board, and Namraj Ghimire, Director…...