Every morning, Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari of the Ministry of Health gets dozens of phone calls from lawmakers and others asking him to arrange for beds in intensive care units and ventilator support at COVID-19 designated hospitals for those close to them.

But he cannot help them much since those facilities are not available anymore with the exponential rise in cases and more and more people getting seriously ill.

He concedes that the government is not able to cope with the rising number of cases.

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