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Court Should Order Deuba Be Appointed Prime Minister, Lawyers WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 130 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 36.0 C 11.5 C Monday, June 28, 2021 | 14-03-2078 Nepalgunj Jomsom Court should order Deuba be appointed prime minister, lawyers argue As Article 75 (5) has already been activated, the question now is who should lead the government on its basis, they say. The defendants’ arguments begin today. TIKA R PRADHAN dence vote in Parliament on May 10, KATHMANDU, JUNE 27 and no one made a claim on forming a coalition government as per Article 76 Lawyers representing writ petitioners (2) of the constitution, the President against the May 21 House dissolution reappointed Oli as prime minister as have demanded that President Bidya per Article 76 (3) on May 13 as he leads Devi Bhandari appoint Nepali CPN-UML, the largest party in parlia- Congress President Sher Bahadur ment with 121 seats. Deuba as prime minister. Although such a minority govern- They asked the five-member ment needs to win a confidence vote Constitutional Bench led by Chief within 30 days, Oli instead recom- Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana to mended to the President to call for the issue a mandamus order in the name formation of a government as per of the President to appoint Deuba as Article 76 (5) of the constitution on per Article 76 (5) since he had the sup- May 20. port of 149 lawmakers of the 275-mem- Both Oli and Deuba had staked ber House of Representatives. their claims on the basis of Article 76 As the lawyers representing the (5). While Deuba had signed support petitioners finished their arguments of 149 lawmakers—61 from his Nepali POST PHOTO: DEEPAK KC on Sunday, senior advocate Congress, 49 from Communist Party People cross a suspension bridge at Sanga, Bhaktapur with the statue of the Hindu god Shiva in the background, on Sunday. The authorities in Satish Krishna Kharel said of Nepal (Maoist Centre), 26 from Kathmandu Valley are mulling further relaxation of Covid-19 prohibitory orders. that the President failed to com- Madhav Nepal faction of CPN-UML, ply with her constitutional 12 from Upendra Yadav led faction of responsibilities. Janata Samajbadi Party and one from “Oli went to the President with Rastriya Janamorcha—Oli claimed decisions of the parties but support of his party’s 121 lawmakers Deuba with the signatures of 149 and Janata Samajbadi Party’s 32. INSIDE As black fungus cases rise, lawmakers. Deuba made the legit- But the President invalidated both imate claim but the President claims and subsequently, on Oli’s rec- didn’t follow her constitutional ommendation, dissolved the House On duty doctor, employee duty to appoint the prime minis- and announced midterm polls for attacked at Covid-19 hospital country faces shortage of ter,” Kharel said at the bench. November 13 and 20. After he failed to get a confi- >> Continued on page 2 DOLAKHA: A group of four people attacked health workers at a Covid-19- dedicated hospital in Tamakoshi drugs for treatment Rural Municipality, Dolakha on Saturday night. The hospital adminis- tration said medical officer Dr Robis India has put a ban on export of the drugs. So far around Karki and office assistant Top Bahadur Mijar were attacked by the two dozen cases of black fungus among diabetic Covid-19 group. “The group had come to the hospital seeking treatment for one of patients and at least six deaths have been reported. them with an injured leg,” said Karki. “I told them I will step outside and have a look since there are coronavi- rus patients receiving treatment inside the hospital building. They got angry for not being allowed into the hospital.” Karki said the group man- handled the health workers, saying they can’t be stopped from entering the hospital they built. (Details on Pg 2) Valley authorities mull allowing public vehicles KATHMANDU: The prohibitory orders in place in the three districts of Kathmandu Valley since April 29 have been extended by a week start- ing Monday but the ban on public vehicles is to be lifted. The chief dis- AFP trict officers of Kathmandu, Lalitpur Blurred or double vision is one of the symptoms of mucormycosis or black fungus infection. and Bhaktapur are for allowing pub- lic vehicles to resume services but PRITHVI MAN SHRESTHA before India imposed a blanket ban on they are yet to decide the modality. KATHMANDU, JUNE 27 the export of Amphotericin B drugs “We have agreed to allow public vehi- amid surging cases of mucormycosis cles. Most probably buses having The Tribhuvan University Teaching in India in early June. more than 20 seats will be permitted Hospital on Saturday admitted two “All three drugs—Liposomal to run, ” said Dhundi Prasad Niraula, new patients—a 56-year-old woman Amphotericin B, Deoxycholate and the chief district officer of Lalitpur. and a 65-year-old man—with mucor- Posaconazole—come under “Regarding the modality of operating mycosis, a rare fungal infection com- Amphotericin B and all of them come public vehicles, the Valley’s CDOs monly known as ‘black fungus’ and under India’s restrictive category,” will be sitting for another meeting mostly found among diabetic Covid-19 said Dr Pradhananga. tomorrow at 10am. That will give a patients. The government does not have any decision,” said Niraula. Last week the With the new cases, the number of these drugs in its store to distribute three district administrators had of patients with mucormycosis at to its hospitals at the moment. eased prohibitory orders to allow pri- the government-run hospital has “We had received 1,000 doses of vate vehicles to run on odd-even num- reached 14. Liposomal Amphotericin B in early ber basis and business to operate on According to the hospital, the condi- June from the World Health alternate days. (Details on Pg 3) tion of both patients admitted on Organization but they have been used Saturday is critical. up,” said Krishna Prasad Paudel, But the hospital does not have spokesperson at the Ministry of Paddy farmers happy as Liposomal Amphotericin B, the pri- Health and Population. “Alternative fertiliser arrives in time mary drug used for treating the black drugs can be found in the market but fungus infection. they are not as good as Liposomal LUMBINI: Farmer Hari Narayan India, the main source of the drug, Amphotericin B. The government Chaudhary of Tilottama-13 laughed has banned its export. does not have a stock of these alterna- all the way home with seven bags of “In the absence of this drug, we are tive drugs either.” precious fertiliser he had finally got treating the patients with an alterna- In a notification dated June 1, the from a cooperative. The paddy trans- tive drug—Deoxycholate,” said Dr Directorate General of Foreign Trade plantation season had set in, and Rabindra Pradhananga, coordinator under India’s Commerce Ministry cat- Chaudhary had been waiting anx- of the Mucormycosis Management egorised Amphotericin B under the iously for more than a month as fer- Committee at the Teaching Hospital. restricted category for export with tiliser supply had stopped because of Mucormycosis affects the brain, immediate effect. the coronavirus lockdown. The Covid- sinuses and lungs and can be According to an NDTV report as of 19 Crisis Management Operations life-threatening to diabetic or severely June 11, over 31,000 black fungus cases Centre, which has blanket authorisa- immunocompromised individuals like had been identified in India with the tion to take measures against Covid- cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. Such death of over 2,100 people from the 19 spread, had removed chemical fer- cases have appeared mostly among infection. tiliser from the list of “essential com- Covid-19 patients in Nepal and neigh- With the stock of the Deoxycholate modities”, barring it from being bouring India. and Posaconazole also running out in transported when the stay-home Amid the shortage of Liposomal the market, doctors said that it would order was issued on April 29. The Amphotericin B, Deoxycholate and be difficult for Nepali patients to decision had affected Nepali farmers Posaconazole are two other drugs secure these drugs if cases of black as they feared a repeat of last year’s available in the Nepali market to treat fungus rose sharply. fertiliser shortage, which made them patients of mucormycosis. A patient needs many vials of this miss out on a super harvest since But Dr Pradhananga said that the scarce drug and the 1,000 vials of rains were good and labour plentiful, patients’ families need to procure Liposomal Amphotericin B received with Nepalis working in various Deoxycholate and Posaconazole from from the World Health Organization parts of India returning home to the markets and these drugs are avail- in early June were used up early. escape the pandemic. (Details on Pg 5) able only because they were in stock >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2021 | 02 NATIONAL Health workers attacked at Dolakha Covid-19 hospital Three assailants in police custody, search for the fourth underway, police say. Rural Municipality-4 on Sunday. He has demanded legal action against the accused in accordance with a recently issued ordinance related to the securi- ty of health workers and institutions. Tamokoshi Rural Municipality has also demanded legal action against the group who attacked the health workers. Seven health workers, including a doctor, work at the five-bed hospital. Meanwhile, security personnel detained three of the four accused involved in the attack on Sunday.
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