KAthmandu- Patients are in trouble as doctors staged a protest over the Consumer Court’s decision. Doctors have shut down all services except emergency. Patients are in trouble after the hospital’s OPD service was shut down. Patients who came for treatment at major hospitals including Bir Hospital, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Patan Hospital and others are in trouble after the OPD was shut down.

Doctors have stopped all services except emergency in both private and government hospitals today, accusing the court of deliberately passing a decision against doctors and hospitals. The Nepal Medical Association has led the protest and instructed the doctors to shut down the services.

Nine other health-related organizations have also supported the protest led by the Nepal Medical Association and opposed the court’s decision. The association’s president, Anil Bikram Karki, said that the court’s decision was unreasonable and that it was a revenge attack on doctors.

“The state has increased the burden of punishment on doctors. We object to this. The service will be disrupted until this is resolved,” he said. “It’s not that we should not provide treatment to patients, but the government’s retaliation and targeting of doctors is not right.”