Bajhang, May 6 -- Shortage of regular medicines for chronic patients triggered by the protracted lockdown is taking its toll in Bajhang, a hill district of Sudurpaschim Province.

Kanka Devi Bohara, a permanent resident of Dhalaun in Saipal Rural Municipality, died on Monday as she could not get her regular medicine. The 47-year-old had been on medication for her ailment for the past six years but had run out of her supply of medicines two weeks ago, according to her neighbours.

"She [Bohara] was deeply worried since she was running out of medicines. Her relatives and neighbours would bring her medicine from Kathmandu but not since the lockdown," said Karishma BK, the victim's neighbour.

Bohara, a mother of four living in Chainpur, the ...