In April 2021, just when Nepal was trying to get back to normalcy after the first wave of COVID, the second wave hit the country. The hospitals were overwhelmed due to a large spike in the number of COVID19 cases and within a week, life-saving resources such as oxygen and ventilators became inadequate. Many people […]

When she became disturbingly short of breath, we had no choice but to take her to the hospital. But as we reached there, a long queue of people in much worse condition than my mother — some groaning in the heat of high-grade fever, while others gasping for bouts of air as if it were […]

It was that time of the year when nothing was going according to plan. All the plans were canceled and all the dreams shattered. I had to pick myself up and begin from scratch. As I was going through personal turmoil, the world was under the grasp of a very powerful evil. As we were […]

Packed beds, chaotic wards, mass casualties, tensions running high, and no end in sight! It was an everyday story circa May 2021 when Nepal was documenting an unprecedented number of Covid-19 cases. With a modest health care system stretched beyond capacity, the medical practitioners felt the brunt of the tsunami daily. I had never felt […]

COVID-19 has been a global burden since the turn of 2020. Healthcare systems are exhausted worldwide by the nuisance caused by SARS-COV-2. Nepal has lost lives on a large scale in 2021 and great numbers of livelihood have been devastated emotionally and economically throughout the country. Moreover, we as health professionals have come out of […]

The COVID-19 health crisis has led to economic hardship, bereavement and social isolation which has affected the mental health of the people globally. But poor health resources, lack of Intensive care beds in hospitals, lack of ventilators, lack of oxygen cylinders, poorly equipped health system, and political instability in the country have intensified the overall […]

​The whole world came to a standstill after COVID- 19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020. A mere virus but so contagious and fatal that the fundamentally social human beings were compelled to be isolated. Looking at it from another perspective, it has become an example of how something so small […]

Nepal is a developing country where health care facilities are centralized in major cities. During the second wave of the COVID pandemic, patients were unable to get treatment in the hospitals due to limited resources, and so the death toll was increasing rapidly. Consultation with a doctor was next to impossible as many physician offices […]

Fresh out of college, I was very excited to work as a medical officer. I was posted in a district hospital. On my first day at work, I woke up early in the morning, got ready, and was headed towards the OPD building by 9 am. I had to wait for almost an hour before […]