Inflow of patients rises further at Nepalgunj Medical College even as hospital runs of out of beds with oxygen
NEPALGUNJ, May 1: Nepalgunj Medical College, a hospital that has been treating patients infected by the coronavirus in the district, has announced plans to upgrade their COVID-19 ward to 300 beds.
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Nursing Association has extended its support to the employees protesting at Lord Buddha Academy Limited, Nepalgunj Medical College, over unpaid salaries, allowances, and service benefits. In a statement issued on Thursday, the association expressed solidarity with the demonstrators and voiced concern over the hospital management’s failure to address the demands raised during […]
The health insurance programme which was earlier implemented only in Bheri Hospital in Nepalgunj, Banke, has also been implemented at Nepalgunj Medical College in Kohalpur. "According to an agreement inked with the Health Insurance on July 16, the insurance programme will be rolled out at Nepalgunj Medical College in Kohalpur," said Deputy Director of the Nepalgunj Medical College Hospital Dr. Dinesh Shrestha.
Doctors and staff of Nepalgunj Medical College Teaching Hospital have launched a protest since Thursday stating that they have not received their salaries for four months and allowance for 11 months. They continued their protest on Friday. On the first day of protest on Thursday, all the doctors and staff staged a sit-in on the hospital premises. The protest has been started at the initiation of Professor’s Council of the hospital, said Binod Mahasetha, chairman of the council.
Locals of Baijanathpur rural municipality-5 of the Banke district in southwestern Nepal took their 46-year-old neighbour to the Nepalgunj Medical College in the district headquarters after she felt difficult to breathe.
With mounting cases of COVID-19, hospitals in Banke are now operating in full capacity. Bheri Hospital, which has been designated to treat the pandemic patients has now been overwhelmed. There aren’t enough beds to accommodate patients, as a result of which Nepalgunj Medical College has stepped up to lift some of the hospital’s strain. The medical college, which is also a teaching hospital, has started a COVID-19 Ward with 45 beds.
