Government recognises forest fires as disaster but neglects victims

Impoverished forest fire victims are struggling in hospitals unable to pay for medicines.

Gyan Bahadur Budhamagar, a local from ward 3 of Taman Khola Rural Municipality in Baglung district, is in critical condition after sustaining injuries while battling a forest fire near his home last week. He, along with another villager who was also injured in the incident, are being treated at the burns hospital in Kirtipur, Kathmandu.