With patient numbers soaring, Bheri Hospital faces shortage of beds

Patients with typhoid, common cold, diarrhoea, fever, and cough have increased at the hospital with the monsoon at its peak.

Bir Bahadur Chaudhary, a 35-year-old man of the Mukta Kamaiya [freed bonded labourers] settlement in Badhaiyatal Rural Municipality, Bardiya, had been suffering from fever for a couple of days. He went to the Bheri Zonal Hospital, Nepalgunj, for treatment on July 28. But was asked to come back the next day because there were not enough beds.