Hundreds of Nepalese doctors ended a 5-day strike on January 23 after the government agreed to meet their demands for medical education reforms, their professional association said.Hospitals and clinics across the Himalayan nation have been shut since January 19 Sunday in support of an orthopaedic surgeon who launched a hunger strike, leaving thousands of patients without treatment.
On January 23 Thursday, more than a hundred doctors ran a free health camp at a playground in Kathmandu to combat criticism that the protests had hurt poor patients, although emergency and intensive care services were still open.
Nepal has some 400 private and state-run hospitals and thousands of clinics, which serve over 100,000 patients daily, according to an estimate by NMA official Milan Chandra Khanal. |
