Healthcare in Nepal

Ciwec is well established and where all the expats and diplomats go. What you must know is that this Clinic is very expensive.
When I came down with a severe case of viral hepatitis some while back, doctors I consulted there explained to me that they did not have the appropriate equipment in Kathmandu to diagnose whether I had viral hepatitis A, B, C or E type?  They said they only had equipment in Kathmandu to test two out of four most common types of this disease. They therefore proposed to send my specimen to a Government hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, to make the diagnosis.
Three months later, I was still waiting, with no results in hand, and nothing received from Bangkok.
What sticks in my mind from that period was the receipt of a bill of over $300.00
I never want back to Ciwec for that reason.
For general information, both E and A have a faecal-oral route, which means that transmission is made by ingesting something contaminated with faeces. It is a well documented fact that both these types are common in Nepal.