A total of 130 COVID-19 patients are being treated at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj today. The teaching hospital has 138 beds for COVID-related treatment. At the present, there are nine COVID-19 infected patients in the ICU and two more are being placed in ventilators.

Doctors and health workers working at the hospital are treating patients even when they themselves are infected. More than 250 infections have been found in employees of the hospital so far.

According to Dr. Ramesh Kumar Maharjan, head of the emergency department of the hospital, 11 out of 40 doctors working in the emergency department have become infected. Similarly, 15 out of 41 nurses and 5 out of 17 attendants have tested positive. Currently, no security guard working in the emergency ward has been infected.