Health facilities across the country have been lacking essential drugs due to the embargo since the last three months. Thousands of patients across the country have been deprived of basic health care services since India imposed the economic sanction after the promulgation of the new constitution. The MoHP on Monday had warned that all hospitals across the country will be shut down soon if the ongoing blockade continues."The Thai government is very much alarmed by the problems Nepal has been facing and is ready to offer life-saving medicines in donation," Mahendra Bahadur Shrestha, chief of the Planning Division at the MoHP, said. He informed that the Thai Embassy in Nepal has already provided some medicines and is ready to donate additional ones.
According to Shrestha, the MoHP has also asked all international aid agencies, including Direct Relief, to provide essential medicines to Nepal. Direct Relief is an international charity organization, which has already provided medicines to Nepal in the recent past.
Meanwhile, the MoHP said that it has decided to purchase essential medicines through the fast track procurement process.
Most of the health facilities across the country are lacking essential medicines, which the government distributes free of cost to the public. The used to provide 70 types of medicines for communicable and non-communicable diseases free of cost.
National drug-manufacturing companies have informed the government that they cannot supply medicines on time as they lacked raw materials. Meanwhile, Indian companies, which had won the tender, have expressed their helpless to the MoHP in bringing medicines to the country.
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