Nepal Skin Hospital
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 60.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #16 of 26 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Multi-branch dermatology and skin-laser hospital with its main branch in Bijuli Bazaar, Kathmandu. Physicians named with role on the site's team page; registrations matched by name in the Nepal Medical Council register.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty is adjacent to what is advertised — a closed list: plastic and reconstructive surgery, dermatology, maxillofacial surgery, facial ENT, oculoplastic ophthalmology, general surgery, aesthetic or cosmetic medicine where it is a recognised specialty. NMC register: registration current, Degree MD; Speciality cell not populated. [nmc-khatiwada] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name; the site does not publish an NMC number. [nmc-khatiwada] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility registry: name, ownership and city match (hf_code 3060804412). [nhfr] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Clinic names no legal entity anywhere on its own pages — brand only. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty An unconditional absolute about the patient's future safety or the treatment outcome — zero risk, no complications, “100% safe”, “result guaranteed” — in the clinic's own rendered text (bright line; cap 65). Bright-line outcome guarantee in the clinic's own text, no issuer. [site] A perfect skin guaranteed by nepal skin hospital |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Completed scan of the clinic's own pages: risk/side-effect content present (own blog article on injection side effects); no consent, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route content found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://nepalskinhospital.com/ (en, 2026-09-18) states: “A perfect skin guaranteed by nepal skin hospital”. Under this methodology an outcome guarantee caps the score at 65.[site]
Ceilings are applied only from verified-false findings with the exact quote or register entry cited. The clinic has a right of reply; a statement with a source changes the data, a statement without one is shown next to it.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Lalan Khatiwada [site] [nmc-khatiwada] | Dermatologist, venereologist, cosmetology, skin-laser surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Merina Manandhar [site] [nmc-manandhar] | Dermatologist, venereologist | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: could not verify
- Liposuction & body contouring: could not verify
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: could not verify
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://nepalskinhospital.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 01-5905344 |
| Address | Bijuli Bazaar, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| City | Kathmandu |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://nepalskinhospital.com/our-team/ | clinic's own site | physician names, roles, branch addresses/phones | 31 August 2026 |
| nmc-khatiwada | https://www.nmc.org.np/search-registered-doctor/?name=Lalan%20Khati… | official register | medical licence + specialist-board register entry for Dr. Lalan Khatiwada (NMC 3676) | 31 August 2026 |
| nmc-manandhar | https://www.nmc.org.np/search-registered-doctor/?name=Merina%20Mana… | official register | medical licence + specialist-board register entry for Dr. Merina Manandhar (NMC 11039) | 31 August 2026 |
| nhfr | https://nhfr.mohp.gov.np/api//health-registry/search?province=3&dis… | official register | facility registry: Kathmandu district sweep, hf_code 3060804412 | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 2 (Completed presence scan of the clinic's own pages (v1.2 pass 1): risk/side-effect content found.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Completed scan (v1.2 pass 1): clinic names no legal entity on its own pages — brand only, whatever the closed register would have said.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 2 (Re-scan (v1.2 pass 1): reloaded home page carries a fresh bright-line outcome-promise claim (anchor value 2), quoted and cited.) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://nepalskinhospital.com/best-dermatologist-in-kathmandu/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.