Deep state loathes a good doctor

Dr Govinda KC has given many a headache to successive governments in Nepal for all the right reasons.

No government likes crusaders, dissenters and activists, especially those who, with unquestionable moral integrity as their lone weapon, question the political leadership of the day and the brute force of the state. The current KP Sharma Oli-led administration is particularly resentful of its detractors. Its nervousness was self-evident in the way it got the police to manhandle Dr Govinda KC, the 63-year-old orthopaedic surgeon who has led a one-man movement for ameliorating the ailing medical sector in Nepal.