Health

It is often seen that in Bhutan, people with disabilities are excluded from the general education system and are placed...

To improve maternal and child health, the health ministry will soon start providing pregnant women with multiple vitamins. The initiative,...

Every year, the Bhutan Health Trust Fund spends millions of ngultrum to purchase medicine and vaccines for the country. In...

Residents of Nganglam in Pema Gatshel will have their much-awaited 50-bed hospital in the 13th Five-Year Plan if everything goes...

The Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital has started receiving an increasing number of patients suffering from stroke. The hospital has...

The health minister says the government is exploring means to recruit foreign health workers if at all the health ministry’s...

To encourage doctors to take specialisation courses at the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, the government has...

About 75 per cent of children up to five years in Thimphu and Phuentshogling are exposed to lead. This is...

A five-day eye camp in Wangdue Phodrang and Thimphu performed cataract surgeries on almost 150 people in the country. The...

In Samtse, the rabies outbreak in Denchukha Gewog’s Poongthra village is now under control. The outbreak was first reported last...