Nepali - Nepal Priority Conditions Packet

An education-only research summary covering ten of Nepal's leading health burdens, grouped into five sections:

- Lungs: COPD, lower respiratory infections and pneumonia, tuberculosis

- Heart and brain: coronary artery disease, stroke

- Infections: typhoid, vector-borne diseases (malaria, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, kala-azar, scrub typhus)

- Metabolic and kidney: diabetes, chronic kidney disease

- Cancer: trachea, bronchus and lung cancers

What's inside:

- What published research does and does not show for each condition, with honest evidence ratings

- Safety cautions, including inhaled cannabis with lung and heart disease

- Why these conditions matter in Nepal (Nepal Health Research Council, Burden of Disease 2019)

- Nepal legal context: Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act 2033 (1976) and recent provincial developments

- 82 numbered sources; PubMed citations checked October 2026

13-page PDF. Nepali edition, machine-assisted translation of the English original, which governs. Citations remain in English.

Education only. No doses, no product recommendations, no drug-interaction verdicts. Not medical or legal advice.

By Annie Romelfanger, Romelfanger Cannabis Education. romelfangercannabis.com