As the number of symptomatic coronavirus cases continues to grow, the government wants private hospitals to allocate upto 1,000 beds for COVID-19 patients.

But private hospitals seem reluctant to do so.

As public hospitals are overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, the Ministry of Health and Population directed the Association of Private Health Institutions, Nepal, to set aside as many as 1,000 beds and 100 ICUs for virus patients.

The new directive from the government, which had earlier directed private institutions to allocate 20 percent of their total bed capacity for Covid cases, is impossible to implement, hospital operators say. “We can’t allocate beds and ICUs the government has asked for,” said Kumar Thapa, senior vice president at the Association of Private Health Institutions.

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