Navigating Mental Health Pharmacy Practice in Nepal

Affiliations

¹ Drug Information Unit and Pharmacovigilance Cell, Department of Pharmacy, Hetauda Hospital, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Bagmati Province, Makwanpur, Hetauda, Nepal.
² Department of Pharmacy, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Bagmati Province, Makwanpur, Hetauda, Nepal.
³ Pharmacy Unit, Prithvi Chandra Hospital, Ramgram-5, Nawalparasi, Nepal.
⁴ National Model College for Advance Learning, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ Vennue Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Nepal Police Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁷ Department of Research and Academics, Kathmandu Cancer Center, Tathali, Bhaktapur, Province Bagmati, Nepal.
⁸ Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College, London, UK.

Nabin Pathak et al. Hosp Pharm. 2025.

. 2025 Jul 23:00185787251356128.

doi: 10.1177/00185787251356128. Online ahead of print.

¹ Drug Information Unit and Pharmacovigilance Cell, Department of Pharmacy, Hetauda Hospital, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Bagmati Province, Makwanpur, Hetauda, Nepal.
² Department of Pharmacy, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Bagmati Province, Makwanpur, Hetauda, Nepal.
³ Pharmacy Unit, Prithvi Chandra Hospital, Ramgram-5, Nawalparasi, Nepal.
⁴ National Model College for Advance Learning, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ Vennue Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Nepal Police Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁷ Department of Research and Academics, Kathmandu Cancer Center, Tathali, Bhaktapur, Province Bagmati, Nepal.
⁸ Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College, London, UK.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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