Nepal hospitals stop admitting Covid-19 patients due to scarcity of oxygen Top Searches Nepal hospitals stop admitting Covid-19 patients due to scarcity of oxygen PTI / May 13, 2021, 12:52 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail A Covid-19 patient arrives on a wheelchair as others are lying down on beds outside an emergency ward of a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP photo) KATHMANDU: Patients in Nepal are gasping for breath, as authorities said they were facing an acute shortage of medical oxygen due to which 16 people infected with Covid-19 died recently, according to media reports. The deadly virus has so far infected 413,111 people and claimed 4,084 lives in the country, which has a population of approximately 29.5 million.