About
A physician who has stayed in Birgunj
Dr. Niraj Kumar Singh has spent his entire clinical career in Nepal’s Madhesh Province — first in the emergency room and intensive care unit, later as a consultant physician, and throughout as a voice for the district’s health infrastructure.
A physician who has stayed in Birgunj
Dr. Niraj Kumar Singh began practising medicine in 2001 at what was then Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital in Birgunj. Between 2003 and 2009 he held two of the hospital’s most demanding posts — Emergency In-charge and ICU/CCU In-charge — before leaving temporarily for postgraduate study in Kathmandu.
His undergraduate medical education was completed at Vitebsk State Medical University in Belarus. He returned to Nepal for postgraduate training in internal medicine at Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Attarkhel, Jorpati, under Kathmandu University, and subsequently undertook further postgraduate training in diabetes.
He returned to Birgunj as a consultant physician. Peer-reviewed research published in 2022 lists him as Consultant Physician in the Department of Medicine at Narayani Hospital; a 2024 paper lists him under the hospital’s Department of Internal Medicine. Alongside his hospital work he consults privately at Manakamana Health Clinic, the practice he runs on Railway Road at Amar Chowk.
Outside the consulting room, Dr. Singh has served the profession through the Nepal Medical Association — as Joint Secretary of its Central Executive Committee from 2020 to 2023, and as Central Vice President and Madhesh Province Coordinator from 2023 to 2026. He speaks regularly on television and at public seminars about diabetes, thyroid disorders and tuberculosis, and has been a persistent public advocate for better staffing and equipment in Madhesh Province’s hospitals.
Education
Training
M.B.B.S.
Vitebsk State Medical University, Vitebsk, Belarus
M.D., Internal Medicine
Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Attarkhel, Jorpati — Kathmandu University
PGT in Diabetes
American Diabetes Association, USA
Postgraduate training in diabetes care, as recorded on his practice registration.
Career
Twenty-five years, one district
The arc below is drawn from Dr. Singh’s own account, practice-confirmed institutional milestones and the affiliations printed on his published research.
Began clinical practice
Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital, Birgunj
Emergency In-charge · ICU/CCU In-charge
Narayani Hospital, Birgunj
Responsible for the hospital’s emergency department and its intensive and coronary care units.
M.D., Internal Medicine
Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu
Left Birgunj temporarily to complete specialist training, then returned to the district.
COVID-19 frontline service
Narayani Hospital · Nepal Medical Association, Province 2
Treated patients through Birgunj’s pandemic waves and coordinated the Association’s provincial medical response.
Joint Secretary, Central Executive Committee
Nepal Medical Association
National honours list
Constitution Day honours, Government of Nepal
Listed among the health professionals decorated for pandemic service, from Narayani Hospital.
Central Vice President · Madhesh Province Coordinator
Nepal Medical Association
Elected for the 2079–2082 B.S. term of the Central Executive Committee.
Panellist, “Practice of Internal Medicine in Nepal”
16th International Conference of the Society of Internal Medicine of Nepal
Royal Tulip, Gwarko, Lalitpur.
Led establishment of the haemodialysis unit
Narayani Hospital, Birgunj
The hospital’s haemodialysis unit was established under Dr. Singh’s leadership.
Consultant Physician, Department of Internal Medicine
Narayani Hospital, Birgunj — and Manakamana Health Clinic
Pandemic service
Birgunj, 2020–2021
Birgunj sits on Nepal’s busiest land border with India, and it became one of the country’s earliest COVID-19 hotspots. Dr. Singh spent both major waves inside Narayani Hospital.
Through 2020 and 2021 he was quoted repeatedly in the national press as a senior physician at Narayani Hospital, describing what the hospital was running short of: beds, oxygen, ventilators, and people.
In August 2020 he warned that severely ill patients were reaching hospital too late, and that Province 2 did not have enough isolation beds, ventilators or oxygen plants to meet what was coming. By April 2021 he was reporting that the hospital was treating patients beyond its normal capacity and consuming roughly fifty large oxygen cylinders a day.
Alongside clinical work, the Nepal Medical Association assigned him responsibility as its Province 2 coordinator for the pandemic medical response. In July 2021 the Barbara Foundation recognised him in the doctors’ category of its COVID-19 Distinguished Award, and later that year he appeared on the Government of Nepal’s Constitution Day honours list.
The photograph on the home page was taken at the Narayani Hospital gate during this period and supplied by the practice.
Professional bodies
Service to the profession
Central Vice President · Madhesh Province Coordinator
Nepal Medical Association
Elected for the 2079–2082 B.S. term of the Central Executive Committee. The term has since concluded.
Joint Secretary, Central Executive Committee
Nepal Medical Association
Provincial Coordinator, COVID-19 medical response
Nepal Medical Association, Province 2
General Secretary
Nepal Medical Association, Narayani Branch, Birgunj
Recorded in Dr. Singh’s own account; exact dates not independently confirmed.
In his own words
Philosophy of care
I believe every patient deserves compassionate, respectful, and evidence-based care. My approach is to listen carefully, explain clearly, and treat the whole person — not just the illness. I aim to help patients achieve better health through prevention, timely treatment, and a trusted partnership built on honesty and dignity.