Service at Dhaulagiri Hospital has gone out of gear, patients complain

Shortage of staff and rise in the number of patients have affected service delivery.

On Thursday, Tuk Bahadur Nepali went to the Dhaulagiri Hospital, in Baglung Bazar, for a medical checkup. The hospital was teeming with a crowd of service seekers queued up in serpentine lines. Nepali spent the day in multiple such lines, only to return home in the evening, dejected and without a checkup. Nepali had travelled a 20km distance from his village Amlachaur to the hospital.