As there is no public transport, patients have to hire private vehicles to come to the hospital. How many patients are looking for a rental car and are late to get the service.
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Ambulances and private vehicles carrying patients are running in the emergency department. A couple is sitting in the waiting room before the emergency without any flow. They were waiting for the vehicle to return home. Due to kidney failure, 58-year-old Bishnumaya Karki of Pokhara-30 Khudi Naharchowk has to go to the hospital twice a week.
Her husband Shri Prasad Shrestha comes to Western Regional Hospital every Friday and Tuesday. After dialysis was over on Tuesday, they had to wait for two hours for the car they called to return home. In the morning, he came in the neighbor's private car. He said he would come at 12:30. Where have they gone,' said Bishnumaya. Shri Prasad who was sitting next to him looked at the clock. "It's like he took others with him," he said.
It has been 5 days since the public transport operators stopped driving in protest against the ride-sharing regulations introduced by the Gandaki state government. Due to the non-operation of public transport, the patients who come for treatment and follow-up at the hospital have to suffer. When Bishnumaya and Shri Prasad came to the hospital on Friday last week, it was the first day of the bandh in Gandaki province. After getting the bus that day, they came on it.
After knowing that the bus will not run on Tuesday, he asked his neighbor to take him to the hospital in a private vehicle the day before. Two patients along with Bishnumaya and Shri Prasad arrived at the hospital in the same vehicle at 6:30 am on Tuesday morning. Dialysis was over in four hours. Then they waited in the waiting room in front of the emergency department of the hospital. "It costs 2,000 to come and go," said Vishnumaya. It would have been cheaper to drive a car.
It has been 4 years since Bishnumaya started undergoing dialysis due to kidney failure. When he came to the hospital on Tuesday, Shri Prasad remembered the sufferings of the corona virus. At that time, he was not too worried about the pain he had to go through while taking his wife to the hospital because no one could be found and no vehicle could be found. If you look for it now, you will find a car. "There is nothing now from the sadness of that time," he said. He returned home around 2 pm with his wife. They had to wait for 2 and a half hours in the hospital to return home which is about 13 km and 30 minutes away.
The patients are coming in ambulances, jeeps going to the village, private cars, motorcycles, and scooters in the western regional hospital, where mostly poor and middle class people come for treatment. Some had to pay expensive fares and use private vehicles, some had to return without treatment because they could not reach the hospital in time.
Gore Pariyar of Tanahun Bhimad came to Western Regional Hospital on Tuesday to get his leg wound dressed. However, by the time he arrived, the time to get a ticket for dressing was over. "Tickets can be bought from 7 am to 12 pm," he said. I couldn't do the dressing.'
Gore Pariyar of Tanahun Bhimad.
His right leg was broken 10 days ago after falling while climbing a tree to cut grass. He is staying with his relatives in Pokhara-14 Khasi Bazar as he has to dress every week and it is difficult to go to the hospital when he returns to the village. After having dinner on Tuesday morning, the daughter-in-law started looking for a vehicle to bring her to the hospital. It was uncomfortable to come and go on a motorcycle/scooter because of a broken leg.
Looking for a car for an hour and a half did not help. Then he came to the hospital in a transport vehicle. He came back without dressing after he was late in coming to the hospital without getting a car. 'Ball-Ball, he brought the vehicle carrying vegetables and goods because he knew it. Now you have to come again tomorrow. Because of the insurance, it is cheaper here," Pariyar said. After not finding a vehicle to return home, he returned by riding a motorcycle in a ride-sharing service. He does not understand the reason why public transport is not running. However, he requested the government to solve the problem quickly.
