Bir Hospital said that the number of patients visiting the hospital per day has gone down by less than half after the indefinite banda called by Madhesh based parties.Each day, over 1,700 patients visit Bir Hospital's Out Patient Department (OPD) in normal times. "Only about 700 patients have been visiting our hospital after the Tarai banda," Dr Swyam Prakash Pandit, director at the Bir Hospital, said.
He informed that number of patients from the Tarai region has declined significantly.
According to Director Pandit, many pregnant women in Tarai have been forced to deliver at home risking their lives.
According to Director Pandit, the effect of the unofficial economic blockade imposed by India against Nepal is beginning to be felt on the hospital's regular activities.
"We are unable to operate the hospital's vehicles in lack of fuel," said Dr Pandit adding, "Not just the patients, our doctors and other staffers, too, have been facing difficulties in reaching the hospital and returning their homes."
Likewise, administration at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) said that number of patients visiting the hospital have reduced by more than 30 percent since the Tarai banda and economic blockade imposed by India on Nepal. "The number of patients visiting the hospital from Tarai is falling," Janak Neupane, an officer at TUTH records section, informed. He said that the hospital has been unable to operate its vehicles since Wednesday.
"We have been running the hospital's vehicles only to bring in the night staffers," added Neupane.
Similarly, Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital said that the number of patients visiting the hospital from outside the valley has dropped to nil. "There is no patient from outside the valley. Only the patients from the valley have been visiting the hospital," Amar Amatya, administrator at the hospital, informed.
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