Investigative Reports

Private Hospital: Big business with pregnant women

Shova Karki, 29 of Sanghu gave birth to a baby¬-girl on October 31, 2006 through Caesarean Section at Om Hospital and Research Centre at Chabahil.  She was diagnose with a normal baby position during her antenatal care (ANC) visits where the doctors told her that she could have a normal delivery. However, two days before the delivery, attending doctor referred her for a surgery.

INDiRA ARYAL: CIJ

Behind the Janakpur Blast : WHO IS ‘HE’?

Two years after the incident, Nepal police have managed to nab Ranjit Jha (Rajan Mukti) and Mukesh Chaudhury (Prakash Vidyarthi), considered key links to the Mithila bombing that killed 5 people and injured 32 on the morning of April 30, 2012.

-NAVIN JHA: CIJ

The Killing Clinics of Nepal-Government Mum on Illegal Operations

Bichari Rai, 45, from Khotang District, battled for over three years and spent some Rs 500,000 (US$ 5,653) in an attempt to have his medical problems diagnosed only to end up in a hospital bed, with both his kidneys completely damaged due to delayed diagnosis.

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR: CIJ

Prasuti Griha’s Infection Scam : Administering fatal drugs: An Unhealthy practice

Shortly after a delivery through cesarean section, as many as 9-women admitted at Thapathali-based Paropakar maternity hospital popularly known as Prasuti-Griha, surmounted with suspicious symptoms like showing violent-behavior, nausea, high fever, severe pain at the spine–where spinal anesthesia was given and eventually they reached unto the juncture of life-or-death.

-DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR: CIJ

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Slum millionaires

The traffic is snarled on the bridge linking Kathmandu and Patan, but commuters stuck in buses and motorcycles are oblivious to the settlements along the banks of the fetid Bagmati.

-DEWAN RAI: CIJ