Tributes to those who lost their lives in the gas explosion at the Sandar Masham shop in Kamalpokhri, Kathmandu, and wish for the speedy recovery of the injured.

Meanwhile, a helicopter was flown immediately for the minister and mayor who were injured when a hydrogen balloon exploded in Pokhara. This development once again proves that the right to treatment in Nepal is not the same for everyone.
The people are burning — the government is silent.
The leader is injured—helicopters run.
About a dozen civilians were seriously injured in the Kamalpokhari incident. Some are lying in hospital beds, some have lost their lives. The state has no concern for poor workers. But when a person in power suffers a minor injury, hospitals across the country are deemed 'unfit', helicopters stand ready for service.
Hospitals are built in Nepal only when leaders fall ill. A cancer hospital was opened after BP was diagnosed with cancer, after Sushil Koirala was diagnosed with cancer, the debate on treatment reform started again. Now should a minister be burned to open a hospital?
Why doesn't the state that is building a 50 billion view tower have a budget to build basic health infrastructure for treatment? When poor workers burn, when citizens are swept away by floods, when civilians die in accidents, the government does not see or hear
s. But as soon as a minister sees a small wound, the helicopter is 'ready', hospitals in the capital become active.
Our demand is clear —
Equal treatment should be provided.
End health discrimination between leaders and workers.
Not helicopter regime, universal healthcare should be implemented.
now requires change. The reason for opening Jalan Hospital is not the wounds of the leader, but the pain of the people. Not a hollow slogan of socialism, but a practical implementation of equality.

- Santosh Simkhada , Tokyo, Japan