[2] He is a professor of orthopaedics at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH),[3] part of the Institute of Medicine, Nepal.

[5] His non-violent protests and fasts have successfully pressured the Nepali government and stakeholders to make change.

has preferred to use his professorship salary to provide services in remote areas of Nepal and has travelled internationally in response to natural calamities.

Apart from his work in the aftermath of the earthquake in Nepal, he financed these Nepalese and international humanitarian services himself.

travelled to the afflicted areas to provide humanitarian aid, carrying the medicine on his back.

has been a prominent campaigner for medical sector reform in Nepal in response to public allegations of both corruption and undue political pressure to give medical college affiliation to facilities with inadequate infrastructure.

[11][12][13] His ongoing advocacy over several years has included several lengthy personal hunger strikes, which have received extensive media coverage and successfully pressured authorities to make changes.

launched another hunger strike[7] campaigning against the political appointment of a new dean of the IoM, which did not reflect seniority, as well as several other grievances.

[18][19][20][21][22] Supporting this cause, the Medical Association of Nepal shut down all hospitals except for emergency services across the country.

announced a fifth hunger strike after the Nepalese government retracted from its agreement with him and his movement[41][42] to regulate the opening of new medical colleges based on a report presented by a team of specialists led by Kedar Bhakta Mathema.

[43] Chitralekha Yadav, Minister for Education, was accused of having made key amendments to the law to make way for the new Devdaha and Birat Medical colleges to be granted affiliation, beginning the dispute.

Law-makers led by CPN UML leader Rajendra Pandey staged protests in the Constituent Assembly demanding the affiliation to be granted before the report would be presented to the government.

They also presented a document with the signatures of 146 lawmakers, mostly from the CPN UML, threatening to topple the government if affiliation was not granted.

[44] Several independent observers stated that none of the proposed medical colleges had enough manpower and that most of them did not have adequate infrastructure or patient flow.

His movement received widespread support from social sector activists, medical professionals and students, and artists including Nepathya and "Maha".

The professor refused to hold talks with the ministers as there were concerns about loopholes in the law and the government forcing its way through existing rules to grant the new medical colleges affiliation.

's agenda, he broke his fast and the Nepal Medical Association and other supporters of the movement retracted the proposed protest measures.

sat on his sixth fast unto death from 24 August 2015 to 6 September as the Nepali government, heavily influenced by politicians and merchants, tried to deregulate medical colleges by undermining the Mathema report.

began his eleventh fast unto death from 24 July 2017 with a seven-point demand for medical education reform.

He demanded that Kedar Bhakta Mathema lead the committee's recommendation in the forthcoming Medical Education Bill.

[55] On 8 January 2018, following the decision of the Supreme Court to reinstate Shashi Sharma as Dean of the Institute of Medicine,[56] K.C.

stated that "Parajuli had lobbied and secured a job for his nephew at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) as the commission's legal counselor despite the SC decision in favor of the former CIAA chief commissioner Lokman Singh Karki.

The Court ordered that the controversy of Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli's citizenship and the case of Dr. Shashi Sharma would be reopened.