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Doctors serving in different hospitals staged a protest in the Capital on Tuesday demanding security.

They staged a demonstration in Maitighar this afternoon in protest against the assult on doctors of Lamjung Hospital and Manipal Teaching Hospital.

While staging the protest, they demanded the resignation of Home Minister Narayankaji Shrestha and Health Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet.

The doctors staged the protest carrying placards and banners with various slogans such as How long will they attack the doctors? And Doctors cannot be assaulted among others.

Nepal Medical Association General Secretary Dr Sanjeeb Tiwari said that the people involved in attacking doctors in various parts of the country should be brought to book.

It has become difficult for doctors and health workers to provide health services in a safe environment in health institutions across the country after a doctor was assaulted following the death of a patient in the Manipal Teaching Hospital recetnly, he said.

Dr Tiwari said that the environment of providing regular health services will be adversely affected if stern action is not taken against the culprits.

Indra Jatra has formally begun in Kathmandu Valley.

The biggest festival of the Valley began with the installation of a wooden pole (lingo) in the premises of Hanumandhoka, Basantapur Durbar Square on Tuesday.

The festival dedicated to Indra, the god of rain and king of heaven, is celebrated for eight days.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has banned vehicles in the area where the Indra Jatra procession will take place.

The metropolis has restricted the movement of all types of vehicles in Basantapur, Maru, Chingamukal, Jaisidewal, Lagan, Brahmatole, Kohiti, Bhimsensthan on Thursday.

The movement of vehicles has been restricted in Basantapur, Pyafal, Yatkha, Naradevi, Tengal, Nyukha, Nhektala, Machhindrabahal, Indrachowk, Makhan and Hanumandhoka on Friday and Basantapur, Pyafal, Yatkha, Naradevi, Kilagh, Bhedasingh, Indrachowk and Makhan on Saturday.

On this occasion, Lakhe dance are performed on the streets of Kathmandu.

Meanwhile, the lingo, brought to Hanumandhoka from a jungle in Bhaktapur, was erected with the help of locals and Nepal Army personnel.

The lingo-erection procession was marked with fanfare.

Two rhinos of Chitwan National Park have been shifted to the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve.

Four-year-old Pushpa and two-year-old Anjali have been taken to the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve from the Chitwan National Park this morning.

Before being transferred to the Koshi Tappu, they were kept in the cage for the  past one week.

Wildlife technician Lal Bahadur Mahatara had monitored them.

Born in Tamaspur of Nawalpur under the Chitwan National Park in 2019, Pushpa was rescued from the muddy swamp.

Anjali was rescued from Dibyapuri area of Nawalpur, Chitwan National Park on April 5, 2021 during the rhino count when she was just one week old.

According to the data, there are no one-horned rhinos in Koshi Tappu. They are being transferred to Koshi Tappu for the first time.

Haribhadra Acharya, Acting Director General of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Department, said that a technical committee had carried out a study on keeping the rhinos in Koshi two years ago.

The committee had concluded that the Koshi Tappu would be an appropriate habitat for rhinos.

Three persons died of dengue infection in Tanahun in the past two months. All three fatalities are from Byas Municipality.

They died from July 1 to September 25. 

Health section Chief of Byas Municipality Pramod Soti informed that dengue infection has been spreading in Damauli for the past few months. The municipality alone has 1,350 dengue patients now.

The municipality is preparing to mobilize its health workers at Damauli Hospital in the wake of a rapid rise in dengue patients. Even the hospital was complaining of shortage of human resources to provide smooth service. A doctor, two lab technicians and two others in the emergency section would be provided to the hospital, he added.

Meanwhile, the municipality has launched a public awareness campaign in every village. Search and destroy campaign would be in place to control the dengue spread.

Now, every ward is running a public health awareness campaign.

Similarly, Chief of Health Office in Tanahun, Shankar Babu Adhikari, urged one and all to maintain further alertness against dengue infection.

He expressed worry over shortage of beds in health facilities with the rise of dengue patients.

Most of patients at Damauli Hospital have dengue fever.