Remote Sankhuwasabha lags in Covid-19 preparedness

Suspected patients have to travel to cities outside the district for PCR tests.

A woman from Khandbari, the district headquarters of Sankhuwasabha, was taken to the district hospital on Monday after she showed symptoms similar to that of Covid-19. On Wednesday, the woman in her late fifties along with three members of her family tested positive in rapid antigen tests as the hospital doesn’t have polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing kits or a lab.