Health facilities in Karnali Province fail to attract doctors

Out of 704 posts of health workers in the province, 441 are vacant.

The Primary Health Centre of Thantikadh has been without a doctor for the last 13 months. On August 29, 2020, a pregnant woman from Siragi in Thantikadh Rural Municipality Ward No. 1 died for want of treatment. Twenty-three-year-old Parbati Shahi was taken to the Primary Health Centre but there were no doctors there, her family said.