Home births have picked up in some parts of the district during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Frustrated by the delays, locals have formed a struggle committee to press authorities to work faster.

The hospital had received three ventilators from provincial government but there are no staff to operate them.

The district administration has enforced a four-day-long prohibitory order in major places of Butwal starting Sunday morning.

Four persons died in monsoon-induced disasters in Rupandehi and Makwanpur on Friday and Saturday.

Health workers have not reached out to every patient in home isolation for lack of manpower and resources, say local authorities.

As a result of travel restrictions, farmers in the region say they are unable to transport produce to the market or purchase feed and many of their fish are dying.

Tilottama Municipality’s decision to set up an isolation centre in Banbatika, Ward No 2 has been on hold since Puspalal Park has denied the municipality’s request to use the park’s building as an isolation centre.

Gurung’s Lumbini Organic Farm and Research Centre produces 28 kinds of fruits.

Prosecutors filed a charge sheet against the trio on June 21 and presented them before the court on Tuesday.

Hospitals say their resources will be spread thin if more patients are admitted.

Scores of people gathered at the border attempted to enter Nepal on Monday, but they were stopped by security personnel of the Armed Police Force.

Without subsidised insurance premiums and bank loans, the poultry business could collapse, chicken raisers said.

A large number of sexual harassment cases in the province still go unreported, said police.

Thirty-four-year-old Baburam Thapa from Palpa, who had recently returned from Dubai, died on Sunday in an isolation facility in Butwal while waiting for his Covid-19 test.