Hey Sajhabahadur,

First of all, I am NOT saying the research papers coming out of our homeland is satisfactory. Also, I just checked pubmed (which is one of the most common search engine in medical/public health field), typing "Nepal" as a search term- it gave me 4606 publications in 231 pages and the most recent was published in March, 2009. If you use following words from common Nepali lastname;

a.) Shrestha- 1056 paper- most recent 2009, March

b.) Pokhrel- 98- most recent 2009, Jan

c.) Limbu- 15- most recent 2006, Jan

d.) Dhakal- 56- most recent 2009.

And the list goes on. If you use "Teaching Hospital Tribhuvan University" it will result 78- most recent 2009  feb.

I can imagine that a good proportion of Nepalese (in home or abroad) are doing great in ths field at least as I don't about other fields.

Hope this helps sajha bahadur

Thanks

Dharan

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