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BIRATNAGAR, May 6: Koshi Zonal
Hospital has vacated 14 beds in the General Male Ward for the exclusive
use of Maoists, and transferred patients there to other parts of the
hospital administration.


Following pressure from the Maoist party, the hospital management has
reserved the beds in the General Male Ward for the free treatment of
Maoist cadres falling ill or getting injured during the strike,
according to a hospital source. The ward remains locked and is opened
only when Maoist cadres are brought in for treatment.

Other patients have been forced to stay in the crowded paying ward even
as the ward reserved for the Maoists remains unoccupied. “We don´t have
any unoccupied bed now. We will have to keep patients on the floor if
more of them come to the hospital now,” one doctor said ruefully.

This is the first time that a special ward has been created in the
hospital which did not allotted a separate ward even during the
Janaandolan II. Medical Sueprintendent at the hospital Dr Sheetal Yadav,
however, denied allotting the ward for Maoists. “We have vacated the
ward for patients at emergency as there is no place to keep them,” Dr
Yadav claimed.



But hospital staffers said patients from emergency are not taken to the
reserved ward while Maoist cadres are taken there directly for treatment
by doctors and health workers affiliated with the Maoists.

Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission has said that remote
hill districts like Bajura, Achham, Bajhang and Darchula are facing an
acute shortage of medicines and food for lack of transport due to the
Maoist strike.

IS THIS LOKTANTRA? IT SHOWS HOW COWARD ARE MAOISTS, AND KATHPUTLE JANATA?

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