Kathmandu, April 4 -- On Saturday, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital opened a 35-bed dedicated Covid-19 ward, after all beds of the existing ward with 16 beds were occupied.

Doctors at the hospital said that the new ward was opened to address the growing inflow of the infected patients.

"On Friday, we were forced to refer four patients to other hospitals due to lack of beds in our hospital," Dr Santa Kumar Das, coordinator of Covid-19 management team of the hospital, told the Post.

After the decline in the new cases, the hospital had shifted the focus from Covid-19 to non-Covid-19 patients last year and started to admit the non-Covid-19 patients in the Covid-19 ward. But now the hospital administration has decided to start a new w...