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A 100-bed Ayurveda Hospital is to be constructed at Amarpur in Shuklaphanta Municipality-11 of Kanchanpur. The hospital is being constructed in line with the government's decision two years back of building an Ayurveda Hospital each in all seven provinces. The Sudurpaschim Province Ayurveda Hospital will be constructed on a three bigha area, said Surya Upadhyay, Officiating Director at the Ayurveda Directorate. "The Department of Ayurveda has allotted Rs 30 million for this purpose. The construction would be started once the land acquisition process is over," he said. A 50-bed Ayurveda Hospital is currently being run in Dhangadhi. The Ayurveda Hospital to be constructed at Amarpur would be the first 100-bed ayurveda hospital in the province. Mayor of Shuklaphanta Municipality Rana Bahadur Mahara said that the land for building the Provincial Ayurveda Hospital has already been identified and the process for acquisition of that land would be expedited. The Department plans to operate the Ayurveda Hospital as an institute. It is said that the hospital will have 100 employees including 30 doctors. Medicinal herbs would be grown, processed and research would be conducted within the hospital premises itself.  

Farmers of Madhes Province have been assured that there will be no problem with fertilizers this year. Agricultural Inputs Company Limited, Madhes Province Regional Office, Birgunj, Parsa has said that this year fertilizer as needed for the month of Asar is in stock while more is coming. Head of the Provincial Office, Chandra Prasad Chamlagain said currently 6,000 metric tons of urea and 3,000 metric tons of DAP are in the warehouse. Hence, there will be no shortage of fertilizer during paddy cultivation this year as more fertilizer will arrive in the first week of Shrawan. In the 10 months of the current year 2079/80, 100,000 metric tons of chemical fertilizers have been received at the Regional Office of the Agricultural Inputs Company, Birgunj Parsa. "Until now, 170,000 metric tons of urea and DAP fertilizers have arrived, 50,000 metric tons of fertilizers are in the process of arriving and 40,000 metric tons of fertilizer is in the process of being approved," said Chamlagain. The demand for chemical fertilizers is high in Asar, Shrawan and Bhadra, the main season of paddy cultivation. Although the supply is not as per the demand, more fertilizer has been received in the current fiscal year 2079/80 compared to the previous year 2078/79.

The number of chronic diseases is increasing in society today due to ignorance towards health, carelessness in diet and lifestyle leading to complications such as high blood pressure, diabetes, liver, kidney and heart ailments. People must be aware of their diet and lifestyle to prevent diseases rather than working to cure it later, said Director of Shaheed Dharmabhakta National Transplant Center, Dr Pukarchandra Shrestha. He was speaking at an interaction on legal arrangements and implementation status of organ donation after brain death organized by the center in collaboration with the federal Ministry of Health and Population. He said that the transplant center has now started a social campaign for posthumous organ donation considering the need for organs to save the lives of people with severe disease. Lives of many patients can be saved if people opt for organ donation and give prior permission for the same. Due to the lack of public awareness, the organs that can be used after brain death are being wasted by either burning to ashes or burring. He suggested creating awareness among the general public at the community level as eight organs can be used for other people after brain death. According to Dr Shrestha 1,000 people die of brain death in Nepal every year and hence there is a possibility that 8,000 organs can be obtained in a year. "Eight people can get a life donation from one brain dead person," he said. Any healthy person can donate organs and the law now provides that transplants can be done through 52 kinds of relatives. Also speaking at the program, Dr Kalpana Shrestha said there is a possibility that even the brain can be preserved and transplanted within 24 hours after death. She also pointed out gender-based discrimination in kidney transplantation in Nepal. "The number of female kidney transplant patients receiving organs from men is very low", she said, "compared to this, the number of male patients receiving kidneys from women is very high." Transplant specialist Dr Dipesh Shrestha and nephrologist Dr Shakti Basnet said that it is necessary to raise awareness about transplants in the society.  

A tense atmosphere lingered in Nanterre on Saturday following the funeral of a French teenager who was fatally shot by police in the Paris suburb earlier this week, CNN reported.

Arrests continued to mount with more than 1,300 people detained Friday overnight into Saturday and another 121 people arrested Saturday during the fifth night of nationwide protests in France after the 17-year-old’s death, according to the French Interior Ministry.

Family and friends gathered Saturday afternoon local time for the funeral service at a mosque in Nanterre. The funeral was solemn and quiet, according to CNN’s team on the ground, with people waiting in silence for his coffin to leave the mosque and be taken for burial. The teenager has been buried in the Mont Valérien cemetery in Nanterre, CNN’s team reported.

A heavy security presence was in place around the mosque.

The boy’s mother, Mounia, told television station France 5 on Friday that she blamed only the officer who shot her son, Nahel Merzouk, for his death. Nonetheless, the killing has sparked widespread destructive unrest and questions over whether race was a factor in his death.

Protests continued into the early hours of Saturday in defiance of a ban announced a day earlier on all “large-scale events” in the country, with rioting breaking out in several cities, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported.

France’s Interior Ministry said Saturday that 1,311 people had been detained following the fourth night of violence, an update on its previous figure. It said 2,560 fires had been reported on public roads, with 1,350 cars burned, and that there had been 234 incidents of damage or fire in buildings, according to CNN.

France activated 45,000 police and gendarmes across the country Saturday night, according to the country’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin.

“I think everyone understands that the government won’t back down,” Darmanin said.

He added the French government will heavily reinforce security forces in Lyon and Marseille, where violent clashes took place Friday night.

Many of those detained since the unrest began on Tuesday are minors. The average age of the more than 2000 detainees is 17 years old, Darmanin said.

Seventy-nine police and gendarmes were injured over the course of Friday night and there were 58 attacks on police and gendarme stations, according to the Interior Ministry.

Two police officers suffered gunshot wounds in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, the office said, one to the nose and the other to the thigh.

Social media videos of scenes in Lyon, geolocated by CNN, showed rapid gunfire from an automatic rifle at night, fireworks being released at a protest and demonstrators next to burning fires.

The Interior Ministry said it would send its elite unit of riot police, CRS 8, to Lyon on Saturday night as it seeks to clamp down on the violence, CNN reported.

More than 700 businesses across France have been damaged since the start of the protests, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said at a news conference Saturday. The businesses, which include shopping centers and bank branches, have been attacked, looted or in some cases, burned to the ground, he said.