DOTI, OCTOBER 27

Hilly districts in Far Western Nepal have been facing a shortage of medicines for a week now.

With recent floods and landslides interrupting the transportation facility, crucial medicine shipments to Doti, Achham, and Bajura have been interrupted.

According to Suduar Paschim Province Health Directorate, Dipayal Rajpur, disruptions of roadways at several locations have hampered the drug supplies to the hilly districts.

Doctor Prakash Thakulla of the District Hospital Doti confirmed the lack of medications in the district. The hospital pharmacy, he adds, is running out of drugs, and private suppliers have also reported a shortage.

The situation would turn worse if the supplies cannot be restored within a day or two, he added. The 50-bed Soo-Jung Hospital Rajpur reports that the existing stock is hardly sufficient for the next two days.

It is said the local level here is also struggling with the short supply of generic medicines. Bogatan-Phudsil Rural Municipality chair Kamal Bahadur Gadsila said they are dealing with the dearth of essential drugs.

According to health professionals, the scarcity of drugs mainly for the control of water-borne diseases and those prescribed for chronic diseases has appeared in the hilly districts in the after of the disasters.