{"id":44845,"date":"2026-03-27T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44845"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:26:18","slug":"health-minister-mehata-assumes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/health-minister-mehata-assumes-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Mehata assumes office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, March 27:<\/strong> The newly-appointed Minister for Health and Population, and Water Supply, Nisha Mehata, has assumed her office today.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the oath of office and secrecy at a special ceremony held at the President&#8217;s House Shital Niwas, she reached the Ministry in Singha Durbar and took charge of her duties.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-appointed minister was welcomed by the ministry staff. Professionally a nurse, Mehata has been associated with RSP since its establishment.<\/p>\n<p>She was elected as a proportional representative MP from the Madhesi cluster from RSP in the House of Representatives. Mehta, 38, from Inaruwa, Sunsari, has completed a postgraduate degree in nursing from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 27: The newly-appointed Minister for Health and Population, and Water Supply, Nisha Mehata, has assumed her office today. After taking the oath of office and secrecy at a special ceremony held at the President&#8217;s House Shital Niwas, she reached the Ministry in Singha Durbar and took charge of her duties. The newly-appointed minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44847,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44845\/revisions\/44847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}