Nepal facing ‘medical crisis’ as supplies run short

A Nepalese pharmacist waits for customers in Kathmandu, where protests at the border with India have led to crippling shortages of fuel and now a lack of medical supplies. -AFP

KATHMANDU: Bindu Ghimire’s chemotherapy appointment is approaching, but supplies of the drugs the 61-year-old desperately needs are in short supply as a political crisis in her native Nepal deepens.

Protests at the border with India have already led to crippling fuel shortages in the landlocked Himalayan nation, and now medical supplies are also running short.