Politics and corruption mar health care in Nepal.

摘要

When Badri Shrestha, a resident of Salyan, western Nepal, took his 13-year-old son with a fractured leg to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Tribhuvan University-Nepal's best treatment centre-at the end of March, he expected his son to receive excellent care. He was wrong. Protesters had shut all hospital services, including the emergency department and he and his injured son had to return home. He had never thought that the country's premier hospital could turn into a battleground and would not provide refuge to people who are ill.