The sub-health post has been without medicines for quite some time. On top of it, health workers are short in supply.

Local people complain that the health worker that the District Public Health Office sent left the VDC after working for only four days. Until Thursday evening, the VDC was yet to receive much-needed medicines and health workers. 

“My bed-ridden daughter died for want of treatment and wife too passed away. I did not want to lose my son, so I left the bodies of my wife and daughter at home, carried my son and headed out in search of treatment. He died on the way on my shoulder,” said Nepali. 

Sixty-five-year-old patient Gyan Prasad Upadhyaya, who lived just 80 metres away from the health post, died because there was no one to carry him to the health centre. With the number of patients multiplying by the day, it is hard to find people around to carry the affected to the health centre. With the number of patients increasing by the day, even funeral attendance has slumped drastically.