Epidemiology & Outbreak Management Section

Provide support to Ministry of Health and Population for drafting national laws, policies, and strategies related to epidemiology and outbreak management.

Provide support to Ministry of Health and Population for drafting national laws, policies and strategies related to preparedness and management of outbreaks/epidemics and other health emergency situations.

Prepare standards, protocols and guidelines regarding epidemiology and outbreaks/epidemics management.

Necessary cooperation and coordination for epidemiological management in province and local level.

Provide support for preparation and implementation of annual work plan at federal level related to epidemiology and outbreak management.

Coordinating and collaborating with concerned authorities in federal level for epidemiology and outbreak management.

Coordinate and provide support in conduction of information management training and other federal programs related to epidemiology, epidemics and other emergency situation management.

Coordinate with multi sectorial authorities in minimizing the impact of natural disasters in health sector, conduction response activities and control of epidemics.

Facilitate and coordinate in providing preventive and curative services through province and local level to prevent the spread of diseases activities after natural disasters in displaced communities.

Monitoring and supervision of disaster preparedness and management activities in coordination with province and provide feedback to the concerned authorities accordingly.

Carryout outbreak control and management by mobilization of Rapid Response Team (RRT) in order to control epidemic prone diseases.

Coordinate and facilitate for management of buffer stocks of essential medicines and other logistics required for the control of outbreaks/epidemics.

Monitoring and supervision of disease epidemics, outbreak preparedness, Prevention and Control activities and providing feedback accordingly.

Resources

News & Update

Jan 1

Post-disaster communicable disease surveillance and response plan

Flooding in the rural districts of Bagmati Province creates the classic postdisaster conditions for communicable disease transmission: contamination of drinking-water sources, destruction of latrines, displacement of populations into crowded temporary shelters, interruption of health services and cold chain, expansion of vector breeding habitat, and loss of livestock with associated zoonotic exposure. Floods do not import new pathogens; they amplify the pathogens already endemic in the area. Preparedness must therefore be built on what is known to circulate in Bagmati Province — including the enteric pathogens Vibrio cholerae O1, Salmonella Typhi and hepatitis A and E viruses, together with dengue virus, Orientia tsutsugamushi, Leptospira species, Japanese encephalitis virus, measles virus, and residual foci of malaria and visceral leishmaniasis. Two operational realities shape this plan. First, the interval between exposure and detectable clusters is short for enteric disease (2–14 days) and long for vector-borne and leptospiral disease (2–8 weeks), so surveillance intensity must be sustained well beyond the point at which media and political attention recede. Second, the routine surveillance system will be degraded exactly when it is most needed, because reporting health facilities may be damaged, staff displaced and connectivity lost. Apparent declines in reported cases in the first weeks after a flood are more often artefacts of reporting failure than evidence of control.

Jan 1

Surveillance Bulletin Week 31, 2026

Acute Gastro Enteritis was the highest reported condition, accounting for 721 cases.

Jan 1

Surveillance Bulletin Week 30, 2026

Acute Gastro Enteritis was the highest reported condition, accounting for 667 cases.