Health Services Disrupted Nationwide as Doctors Protest Mistreatment

Kathmandu. Health workers have halted all services except emergencies in health institutions across the country in protest of mistreatment and assault on doctors. In this regard, general public who came for treatment at Bir Hospital and National Trauma Center in Kathmandu have fallen into serious trouble.

Patients who came from afar hoping for treatment have been left stranded after government, private and non-governmental hospitals across the country were closed at the call of the Doctors' Association in protest of the attack on doctors.