Nepal's hospitals face oxygen supply shortage
Xinhua
05 May 2021, 18:05 GMT+10
KATHMANDU, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Nepal's two major government-run hospitals based in capital Kathmandu have been facing oxygen supply shortage, authorities said.
The Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease hospital which has been converted into a COVID-19 hospital, and the National Trauma Centre, another hospital which treats people injured in accidents, are running out of liquid oxygen.
"Our liquid oxygen tank is running out of oxygen and it will just be enough till Wednesday," Sagar Kumar Rajbhandari, a hospital official, told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli said on Monday in his address to the nation that the government had banned supplying oxygen for purposes except for the purpose of treating patients.