Kathmandu, May 15 -- Nepal's migrant workers in West Asia, who wereleft largely to fend for themselvesby their government when the pandemic hit last year, have come to the rescue of their homeland which is being ravaged by a fierce second wave.

Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf region collectively raised money to rush 560 oxygen cylinders which arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday evening on a Nepal Airlines flight from Muscat.

Nepal's hospitals have run out of beds and medical oxygen as the total active cases in the country reached 110,000. On Saturday, 8,167 new cases were recorded, and there were 187 deaths. Many patients aredying while waiting for oxygen.Nearly 8,000 people are undergoing treatment in various hospitals across the count...