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Country heading towards severe shortage of specialist doctors

By Dilanthi Jayamanne in Ceylon Today, June 22, 2023With 4,000 consultant specialists being required by 2025 and only around 2,050 specialist doctors in place by 2023, the country would face a more serious situation in the near future, due to the retirement of a total 250 specialist doctors by 31 December 2023, in accordance with a Government Gazette, warned the health services. Countering a news report, published in the Ceylon Today on 13 June 2023,…

Top court to accept ex-child soldiers’ petition against PM

by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 10, 2023Revoking last week’s decision of its administration to scrap a writ petition of former child Maoist combatants, the Supreme Court has ordered its staffers to register the petition that demands prosecution of the then Maoist supreme commander Pushpa Kamal Dahal, now the country’s prime minister, and the then ‘people’s government’ chief Baburam Bhattarai, who also is a former prime minister. A single bench of Justice Anand…