User:Dr. Surya B. Parajuli

Dr. Surya B. Parajuli, currently working as medical faculty at Department of Community Medicine, Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital. He is Coordinator of Research and Publication Department, Editor of Birat Journal of Health Sciences (BJHS) and Member Secretary of Institutional Review Committee of the same institute. He has completed Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Community Medicine & Tropical Diseases from the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal in 2015. He did his MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from Kathmandu University, Nepal and Master of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences (Rural Development/Agrarian Injury) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has founded and has been leading the Nepal Medical Volunteer Society at eastern Nepal since 2011. He has been continuously involved in Health research advocacy, eHealth initiative, a mentorship program for young students, policy advocacy, developing and setting up innovative community-based health endeavors in rural Nepal. He has been producing and presenting his popular radio health program “Doctor Saathi’ since 2011. It has already completed its 160th episode with having 50 thousand listeners. His early professional career started as a Camp Health In charge/Camp Medical Officer at Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA), Primary Health Care Project for Bhutanese refugees, Jhapa supported by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He was a site investigator at national level RCT for “A randomized, double-blind, clinical trial of two dose regimens of VINS polyvalent anti-venom ATC J06AA03 for the treatment of Snake bites with neurotoxin envenoming in Nepal (n* 08-192)” at B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Science, Dharan, Nepal in collaboration with Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland. Since last 3 year, he has initiated Budiganga Health Survey (BHS) in Morang district of Nepal in coordination with local government. Budiganga rural municipality has 40,165 population with 9,500 households.

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