A wound healing treatment pioneered at a mountaintop leprosy hospital in Nepal could spare diabetes patients from having to undergo foot amputations.

Great strides have been made in a mission to help rid Nepal of leprosy, even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nepal is now facing a more severe crisis than the earthquake of April 2015, which killed 9,000 people. While the country has reported almost 9,000 Covid deaths, public health experts believe this figure to be vastly underestimated.