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On Friday 18 February the Ministry of Health dashboard detected three community cases from Changbandhu. The cases were from one family with a family member working in the Royal Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA). The MoH tested the entire RAPA staff and dancers and cordoned off the entire RAPA institute …

P 1 may be next in line but no final decision yet The Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) assessments of 59 executives at the Director position level found about one-third of the Directors promising. The RCSC will be further testing their suitability to assume expanded roles. Together with executives at …

Bhutan Medical and Health Council (BMHC) will be investigating the recent death of a 34-year-old woman, Sostika Gurung, in an isolation hotel in Thimphu. An official from BMHC said, for now, they are cross-checking the facts which was reported in the media with the deceased’s husband who is currently in an …

In the early hours of 28 January 2022, a 34-year-old kidney patient, Sostika Gurung, died in room 3002 in Silverpine Boutique hotel after her husband could not get her any timely help from the nurse put on their duty or the ambulance he had called for on 112. The room …

The small town of Nganglam, with around 5,000 people, has had 249 cases of COVID-19, which comes to an average of one in every 20 people in the town testing positive. There is fear, and also anger, among the local residents there who feel such high numbers would not be …

While there has been a lot of recent focus on the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Pyramid Scheme selling Enagic Water Ionizers in Bhutan, there is another MLM Pyramid Scheme that is growing in Bhutan in the form of QNet. The modus operandi are very similar, in that people can become members …

6 pregnant mothers who are COVID positive were able to sucessfully deliver their babies. In Thimphu there was one normal delivery and another was a Cesarean Section (CS) baby. The CS had to be conducted due to prolonged labour. It was sucessfully conducted by a team of Specialists and Operation …

The Bhutanese has found that the two masterminds behind the major Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Pyramid Scheme in Bhutan selling expensive Enagic Water Ionizers are two men named Mike Dreher and Darren Ewert based in Vancouver, Canada. The couple run a large online network called the ‘Dream Team’, which is the …

With the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) completing the assessment of 62 executives at the Secretary and Director General level, and finding 50 percent of them not meeting expectations, the next lot of executives who will be assessed will be 59 Directors in the 10 ministries and various autonomous agencies …

A grief-stricken 43-year-old man, Krishna Gurung, who lost his 34-year-old wife, Sostika Gurung, in an isolation hotel on 27 January in Thimphu, said his wife would have been alive, if only the health team had responded to his SOS calls. Sostika Gurung was a kidney patient who was undergoing dialysis …