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A specialized medical team has been deployed to the Himalayan region to provide health check-ups and treatment for climbers and trekkers arriving during the spring mountaineering season.

The Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal (HRAN) has mobilized an 11-member team, including foreign and Nepali doctors, to major high-altitude areas such as Everest Base Camp and Pheriche in Solukhumbu district as well as Manang district. 

The initiative aims to provide medical services and support to both domestic and international mountaineers and trekkers in high-altitude areas.

Established in 1973, the Association has been working to provide medical services to tourists undertaking mountain expeditions and trekking, particularly during the busy spring and autumn climbing seasons. 

With the onset of this year’s spring season, the Association has dispatched a team comprising five foreign and two Nepali doctors along with support staff.

In the Everest Base Camp, Australian doctor Samantha Allison Wills, Nepali doctor Prince Singh and support staff member Lakpa Norbu Sherpa have been deployed.

At the Pheriche health post, Australian doctor Rebecca Allen Carpenter, American doctor Caitlin Brooke Harper, Nepali doctor Aakriti Singh and support staff Ang Dawa Sherpa and Thaneshwar Bhandari have been assigned.

Likewise, at the Manang health post, American doctor Joseph Peter Mahoney, Australian doctor Ken J. Koh and support staff member Prakash Khatri have been mobilized, said the Association. 

According to Association President, Damber Parajuli, temporary health posts have been set up at the Everest Base Camp, Pheriche and Manang village to offer immediate medical attention to trekkers and mountaineers.

The Association has been setting up a health camp at the Everest Base Camp since 2003 serving climbers, trekkers and support staff while similar services have been available in Pheriche since 1973. 

The Association has been operating such camps in Manang since 1980 and in Gosaikunda since 1997, it has been shared.

A 13-year-old boy drowned in a pond in Pyuthan.

The deceased has been identified as Jenish KC. 

According to a source, he had gone to the pond with two friends to swim.

KC was a seventh grader at the Public English Boarding School in Kwadi.

An elderly man died after being hit by a tipper at Bhangari in Resunga Municipality-13, Gulmi on Wednesday.

Police identified the deceased as ​​​​​Budhathoki (92).

Incapacitated in the incident, he was rushed to the Palpa Mission Hospital but breathed his last during the course of treatment, DSP Ganga Bahadur Saru, Information Officer at the District Police Office, Gulmi said. 

The tipper (Lu 1 Ka 4547) belonging to Sujata Construction hit Budhathoki while it was heading towards Butwal from Tamghas this morning. 

Further investigation into the incident is underway, said police. 

Twenty Ugandan women  were arrested from Thamel, Kathmandu for their alleged involvement in unlawful activities. 

SP Pawan Bhattarai of the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, said that they were apprehended for harassing foreign and domestic tourists as well as pedestrians. 

They were remanded in custody for 12 days for investigation, SP Bhattarai informed.