Gandaki lacks hospital beds to care for Covid-19 patients

The province has reported over 7,000 positive cases, with 3,000 active ones. But it has only 176 ICU beds and 57 ventilators.

A 52-year-old Covid-19 patient in Pokhara needed immediate hospitalisation after her health condition took a turn for the worse last week. She was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital but could not get admitted, as the health facility was out of ICU beds. The patient was finally able to get a bed at the hospital after getting a recommendation from the ward chairman. But she passed on the third day of her hospital stay.