International Health Regulations’ annual review starts in Kathmandu

Due to the apathy of successive governments in strengthening the health desks and taking other measures, the health desks in Nepal are only in name, according to experts.

In mid-June, a Nepali national, who had just landed at the Kathmandu airport by a Dubai flight, was found suffering from fever and had rashes all over his body. Medics deployed at the health desk at the airport suspected that the man might have been infected with the monkeypox virus.