Solukhumbu, March 14: Viral infection has gripped Solukhumbu district. Number of patients suffering from viral fever, common cold and cough, asthma, pneumonia, headache, respiratory problems and diarrhea has been increasing at different places in the district from last week.
According to the District Health
Office, number of patients visiting Phaplu Hospital has increased all of
sudden, creating problem in service delivery of the hospital.
More than a dozen patients
suffering from viral infection visit Phaplu hospital for treatment daily. The
15-bed hospital has now been providing treatment admitting more than 50
patients, according to the hospital administration.
Officiating Chief of the hospital,
Sani Sherpa, said they have been facing problem in managing human resources to
attend to the patients following the increasing number of patients at the
hospital.
Of the patients admitted in the
hospital, most of them are patients of viral infection. "We lack adequate
human resources but the patient inflow is high. We have now been mobilizing all
available means and resources," Sherpa mentioned.
Most of the patients visiting the
hospital are in critical health condition and they have to be put under
oxygen.
"All beds in the hospitals are
packed. We have been providing treatment keeping the viral patients even in
beds in the maternity room.
A situation might occur wherein patients will have to be treated keeping them on the floor if the number of patients surges like this," shared the hospital's Dr Ram Babu Joshi. (RSS)