Nepal

Kathmandu, September 10

At least 15 people commit suicide daily in the country and number of suicide cases increased in the fiscal 2018-19, according to Nepal Police. As many as 5,785 people committed suicide in the fiscal.

As many as 5,346 people committed suicide in 2017-2018 but only 5,317 suicide cases were registrations in the year. There is always a difference between the number of deaths and registered death cases. Suicides in groups were counted as a single case, according to police.

Police records also reveal that children who committed suicide accounted for eight per cent of total suicides in the last fiscal year.

&Suicide is mostly associated with mental illness. Depression, bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia are some of the causes of suicide,&said Phanindra Prasad Baral, Chief of Non-communicable and Mental Health Section, Epidemiology and Disease Control Division.

&Growing frustration due to political instability, unemployment, failure in exams, financial problems, extramarital affairs and complex modern lifestyle are also pushing youths to commit suicide.

There are multiple factors for one to commit suicide. However, it is preventable if proper counseling, treatment and care are given,& said Ritesh Thapa, director and consultant psychiatrist at Rhythm Neuropsychiatry Hospital and Research Centre, Ekantakuna. A rally was organised in the Capital to mark World Suicide Prevention day today.

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Kathmandu, September 10

Senior leader of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Bamdev Gautam has tested positive for dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, which is rapidly spreading across the country and has claimed six lives so far.

Gautam had visited Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital yesterday morning after complaining of fever. &He came to the hospital with fever and flu like symptoms,& said Anup Bastola, consultant tropical medicine physician and spokesperson for Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku.

&He underwent a blood test called non-structural protein 1 (NS1) and it confirmed that he was infected with acute dengue,& Bastola said. &However, the disease is in early phase.& Gautam is resting at home, his wife Tulasi Thapa, who is also an NCP lawmaker, told THT.

Gautam is the third high-profile personality after Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development Chakrapani Khanal and renowned ophthalmologist Sanduk Ruit also contracted the disease this season.

Khanal was admitted to Grande Hospital in Kathmandu after testing positive for dengue. He was discharged yesterday. Dr Ruit, who was admitted to Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu on Friday, is still undergoing treatment.

Dengue cases have been detected in 56 of 77 districts. A total of 3,899 people had tested positive for the mosquito-borne disease throughout the country till September 9, according to Epidemiology and Disease Control Division.

The largest number of dengue patients has been detected in Chitwan (1,036) followed by Kaski (715) and Makawanpur (624). Dengue has also spread rapidly in Kathmandu valley, where 319 people have tested positive for the disease.

At least 400 patients visit Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kathmandu for dengue tests daily. Of these, over 150 have been testing positive. Dengue tests are also performed at the National Public Health Laboratory in Kathmandu. The national referral laboratory conducts tests on around 200 blood samples everyday, of which 40 per cent test positive for dengue.

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Kathmandu, Sept 10

The Pashupati Area Development Trust is all set to take action against an organisation for not playing the national anthem prior to performing aarati, a Hindu ritual in which deities are hailed, at Pashupatinath temple.

The Bagmati Aarati Pariwar has been performing Ganga Aarati every evening at Pashupatinath temple for the last 12 years. The ritual is performed on the banks of the Bagmati River.

On August 26, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai directed the PADT to play the national anthem before performing the aarati. The Bagmati Aarati Pariwar started playing the national anthem from August 30 as per the instruction, but did so only till September 3. This has prompted PADT to take action against the Pariwar.

&We will be forced to ban the Pariwar from performing aarati at the temple if it does not follow our instruction,& PADT Member Secretary Pradeep Dhakal said. The PADT has summoned the Pariwar to its office. &We have not heard from them. If they continue to ignore our calls, we will ban them and start performing the aarati on our own,& said Dhakal.

The Pariwar claimed that it discontinued playing the national anthem after facing criticism.

&The place where aarati is performed is located right next to the cremation ground,& said Basudev Shastri, vice chair of the Pariwar. &The playing of the national anthem causes inconvenience to bereaved families, as it is mandatory to stand up whenever the national anthem is played. This has drawn criticism from a cross section of society, including renowned cultural expert Satya Mohan Joshi.&

Minister Bhattarai, who chairs the PADT, has not clearly explained why the national anthem has to be played prior to aarati. He could not be contacted.

But, ironically, even senior officials of his ministry are not willing to take ownership of the decision that he took. &He took this decision in the capacity of the chair of the PADT and we have not been formally informed about it,& MoCTCA Spokesperson Ghanshyam Upadhyaya said.

The minister, according to a PADT official, instructed that the national anthem be played before performing aarati after witnessing a huge crowd that had gathered to watch the ritual on August 12. &He decided to cash in on it prior to Visit Nepal 2020 and directed that the ritual be telecast live through YouTube and national anthem be played prior to aarati.&

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