COVID-19 spirals out of control in Nepal: ‘Every emergency room is full now’
Surging caseloads, spiking mortality rates, and supply shortages threaten one of India’s neighboring nations.
ByBen Weissenbach
Email
Just before midnight on Sunday, Anup Bastola chief consultant for Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population, lead doctor at Sukraraj Hospital in Kathmandu, and the man who identified Nepal’s first-ever COVID-19 patient a year ago felt, for the first time in his career, completely helpless.
Sukraraj transformed Sunday from an overloaded hospital into a nightmare of triage. Bastola arrived home from duty only to learn that six more patients were failing six more for whom he could not find ventilators or ICU beds.
Nepal receives China-donated oxygen cylinders
Xinhua
11 May 2021, 23:05 GMT+10
KATHMANDU, May 11 (Xinhua) The first shipment of China-donated oxygen cylinders and ventilators arrived in Nepal on Tuesday, which Nepali officials say are helpful in reducing the shortage of oxygen for COVID-19 patients in the country. A Nepal Airlines plane landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 16:00 local time with oxygen cylinders, ventilators and oxygen concentrators from Beijing, said Dim Prasad Poudel, managing director of the airline. According to Nepal s Finance Ministry which has been coordinating with the Chinese side for the assistance, there is an agreement with China for the delivery.
2021-05-11 13:06:02 GMT2021-05-11 21:06:02(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KATHMANDU, May 11 (Xinhua) The first shipment of China-donated oxygen cylinders and ventilators arrived in Nepal on Tuesday, which Nepali officials say are helpful in reducing the shortage of oxygen for COVID-19 patients in the country.
A Nepal Airlines plane landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 16:00 local time with oxygen cylinders, ventilators and oxygen concentrators from Beijing, said Dim Prasad Poudel, managing director of the airline.
According to Nepal s Finance Ministry which has been coordinating with the Chinese side for the assistance, there is an agreement with China for the delivery.
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