Patients are facing crisis as the hospitals are closed from the last one week due to the strike. The western regional hospital under the Pokhara Health and Science institute are severely affected due to the strike resulting the patients compelled to pay high price to get treatment in private clinics.
Majority of patients with health insurance are coming to the hospital and they are being transferred to Gandaki Medical College and Manipal Hospital according to hospital director Arjun Acharya.
More than 1500 patients are coming in a daily basis to receive OPD services according to Dr Acharya.
The postmortem services are also closed due to the strike called on by the doctors from the last week.
Government doctors halted all health services demanding a reconsideration of their adjustment under the federal set-up of the government. Many government doctors complain that the government’s act of transferring them to provinces will deprive them of career growth opportunities.