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Nepalese pharmacist waits for customers in Kathmandu, where protests at the
border with India have led to crippling shortages of fuel and now a lack of
medical supplies ©Prakash Mathema (AFP)
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Bindu Ghimire's
chemotherapy appointment is approaching, but supplies of the drugs the
61-year-old desperately needs are in short supply as a political crisis in her
native Nepal deepens. Protests at the border with India have already led to
crippling fuel shortages in the landlocked Himalayan nation, and now medical
supplies are also running short.
"So
far, the medicine had been available, but the pharmacy is not sure if they can
provide it next time," the 61-year-old's son Shashi Shekhar Ghimire told
AFP.
"I
don't know what I will do if we don't get it," said Ghimire, whose mother
has stage two colon cancer and needs a chemotherapy session every 21 days.
"It
is getting very difficult."
