Nepal in Effect of Multiple Viruses

Dr Pramod Kattel

These days the whole world is suffering from pandemic of Novel Corona virus (SARS-CoV-2). Not just a country but whole world and UN Specialized agency like WHO is focusing its role on mitigating the existing problem. Day to day cases of COVID-19 is on rise with huge number of death tolls. Nepal is not aloof from it. Government of Nepal is also making strategies to tackle the situation. To deal with the problems, health workers who are the front-liners of the war against Novel Corona needs logistic like Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) on huge number. There is crisis of PPEs within the country due to lack of timely preparation. Neither the Health Secretary nor the Director General of Department of Health Services is Medical Personnel having special attention and vision towards it. Health had always being neglected which is justified by the number of doctors providing health service throughout the country in government sector just being about 1500 in number with hardly 1200 functioning actively. When talking about the national budget, merely 5% of national budget is provided for health sector which WHO based on Abuja Declaration 2001 recommends government to allocate 15% of their budgets to the health sector. This shows the attitude of government towards health and its preparation to combat the COVID-19, caused by highly contagious and infectious virus, Novel Corona. So there is dire need to bring the logistics from neighbor country China who is the major supplier of the same not only to Nepal but also to the whole world. The virus initially hit hard the country itself which it is gradually getting rid off but not completely.