Nepal's Health System Overwhelmed as Floods Cause $2.56B in Damage

Significant casualties and displacement from flooding; families unable to perform traditional cremations; widespread health system strain affecting vulnerable populations.

In the shadow of the Himalayas, Nepal is confronting a disaster that has exposed the fragility beneath its foundations — floods that have erased $2.56 billion in economic stability, severed the physical bonds between communities, and overwhelmed a healthcare system that was already carrying more than it could bear. The crisis is not merely one of water and wreckage, but of a nation's capacity to care for its own when the infrastructure of care has been washed away. As the United Nations reaches toward a $50 million response, the deeper question emerges: whether this moment of rupture becomes a

Nepal's Health System Overwhelmed as Floods Cause $2.56B in Damage

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