Ilam, January 15
Medical education reform activist Dr Govinda KC’s health is deteriorating and his treatment at the District Hospital in Ilam, where he is on a hunger strike for the last seven days, will soon become impossible, doctors say.
Doctors say that KC, who began his 16th fast on Wednesday after the government tabled the controversial medical education bill in Parliament, should be taken to an ICU, but the hospital in Ilam does not have such a unit. They say that Dr KC needs to be taken to Birtamod, Dharan, Biratnagar or Kathmandu.
“Dr KC has contracted pneumonia and his immunity is deteriorating. But Dr KC does not want to move an inch from his bed, neither does he want any medication,” KC’s aide Dharma Gautam told Onlinekhabar. He added that Dr KC started his fast at a private house in Fungling, but he reluctantly agreed to get admitted at the District Hospital on Monday.
The last time Dr KC went on a hunger strike in Jumla, police used force to bring him to Kathmandu as his treatment had become impossible there.
Dr KC, meanwhile, says he will not hold any talks with the government unless past agreements between him and the government are implemented.
