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Sagar Budhathoki

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(He/Him)
Kathmandu
As seen in: HimalKhabar.com, DZone, Nepali Times, OnlineKhabar, Ukaalo
Covers:  Public Health and Education,Envairoment,Climate Crisis, social justice.
Journalist @ukaalonews Health Policy & Health Politics । Social Affairs। Past : @Nepalfactcheck @Himal_Khabar @Online_khabar @PahiloPost

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Sagar Budhathoki’s Biography

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Sagar Budhathoki is an investigative journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He currently works as a Reporter at Ukaalo News, a digital news platform known for its investigative reporting. He has previously worked with leading Nepali media outlets, including Himal magazine, Onlinekhabar, and Pahilo Post. He has also worked as a fact-checker at Nepal Fact Check, a dedicated fact-checking platform in Nepal.

His investigative reporting focuses on public health, environmental issues, and corruption, …

Sagar Budhathoki’s Journalist Portfolio

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Articles

Nursing grievances against the state

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By Sagar Budhathoki Verified
| Nepali Times Verified
Nepal has an over-supply of nurses, but nursing positions at hospitals are vacant because of low pay and overwork 17 March 2024 Ritu got her nursing licence in 2017 and started working at a hospital in Bansbari for a monthly salary of Rs15,000. She had a heavy workload, had no overtime pay and could not always get a day off. Two years into her job, Ritu’s brother fell ill and she took two days’ leave to go to Pokhara to care for him.
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Grass is greener overseas for Nepal's doctors

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By Sagar Budhathoki Verified
| ampproject.org
In 2009, Samir Lama completed his MBBS and then passed all three stages of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), making him eligible to practice in the US. However, he returned to Nepal in a year, opting to serve his own people instead. Lama pursued a three-year residency in General Medical Practice at the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu sponsored by the Nick Simons Institute and was later placed at the District Hospital in Piuthan under a three-year contract.
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CIJ: Centre for Investigative Journalism

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By Sagar Budhathoki Verified
| cijnepal.org.np
Misuse of pesticides is becoming a major reason for deaths in Nepal. Research shows that the public health crisis caused by the government’s ignorance has already become too late to stop. Sagar Budhathoki |CIJ Nepal The Poison Information Centre of the TU Teaching Hospital received a phone call regarding an unconscious three month old child who had ingested Potassium Phosphate. Two months ago, the child was taken to a local clinic in Ilam after undeliberately consuming the chemical used in farming.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I don't remember

Have you ever used a typewriter?

no

How is social media changing news?

Social media allows every individual to have a voice in the news through comments and posts. It can bring together people who share the same views. People tend to friend and follow others who believe the same things they do to the exclusion of other viewpoints.

Awards

COVID-19 Frontline heroes

2021 - exemplary contributions in the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Barbara Foundation on January 29, 2021 felicitated 14 healthcare workers and journalists and 5 institutions for exemplary contributions in the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the testing times of COVID-19 when fear and anxiety were pervasive, the healthcare professionals, journalists and security personnel exhibited tremendous courage, love and compassion in the frontline. Barbara Foundation COVID-19 Distinguished Award, which was announced in September 2020, honored these frontline workers amid the award ceremony held at the auditorium hall of the Nepal Tourism Board. Senior artists Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bansha Acharya were the chief guests.

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