Nepal Injury Research Centre - NIRC

Nepal Injury Research Centre, Kathmandu Medical College Public Limited celebrated the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) 2025 to commemorate the crash Victims at Kathmandu Medical College and the Eight Municipalities where we are having our Community Engagement and Involvement activities. Those municipalities are Banepa, Panauti, Galchi, Belkotgadhi, Ratnanagar, Kalika, Bakaiya, and Bhimphedi. As a united community, we have organized the Candlelight vigil program in all municipalities. This collective effort is a testament to our shared commitment to honour those affected by road crashes.
We acknowledge Safe and Sustainable Travel Nepal - SSTN for their support in organizing the activities in those municipalities.

We are pleased to share with you the August 2025 edition of the SafeTrip Nepal Newsletter.

In this edition, you will find highlights from our recent Community Engagement and Involvement activities, data collection updates, training insights and other newsworthy developments from the SafeTrip Nepal research programme.

👇You can access the full edition by clicking on the link below.

SafeTrip Nepal Newsletter - August 2025 A 'Safe Systems' Approach For Enabling Traffic Injury Prevention in Nepal

Our journey of strengthening injury recording and reporting systems continues. We had an interactive workshop on the Daily Incident Reporting System (DIRS) with the police officers from the Police Headquarters in Nepal.

Nepal Injury Research Centre (NIRC) is pleased to organise a workshop on the Road Accident Reporting System (RARS) in collaboration with the National Road Safety Council, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Nepal.

Nepal Injury Research Centre (NIRC) organized a Health Management Information System (HMIS) workshop with officials from various hospitals, including the IHMIS and DoHS. The discussion focused on systematically collecting injury-related data from health institutions across Nepal.

Meeting with the SAFETrIP Nepal Emergency Care Professional Engagement Group (ECPEG) members. This meeting serves as an excellent platform to share our experiences regarding transporting patients with road traffic injuries and their handover at emergency departments in hospitals across Nepal.

Post ministerial road safety conference briefing meeting on Nepal Government's commitment on future road safety initiatives at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MOPIT) called by the Secretary, MOPIT.

Researchers from the Nepal Injury Research Centre attended the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, which was a good learning experience. They had presentations and important meetings with the road safety practitioners from around the globe.

Sixth-year medical students from Denmark visited Kathmandu Medical College. It was wonderful to discuss injury issues with them.