Kathmandu, April 7 -- Nepal Cleft and Burn Centre, also known as Kirtipur Hospital, sends several burn victims to other hospitals every day as all allocated beds have been occupied.

Along with general beds, all beds in the intensive care unit of the hospital have been occupied by patients whose health conditions are severe.

"We have also been using beds of general wards of other units to accommodate burn victims," said Dr Kiran Nakarmi, director at the hospital. "But that too is insufficient, which forced us to send seriously burnt patients to other hospitals."

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