Kathmandu, May 23 -- Nepal's Supreme Court ordered the government toensure that no citizen dies because of the lack of oxygen,the government banned all non-medical use of oxygen, in the past week alone, at least 10,000 oxygen cylinders have been flown in, while the Tibet government trucked 30,000 litres of liquid oxygen.

Yet, patients are still being turned away from city hospitals due to the lack of beds with oxygen. Patients who could have been saved with timely and adequate medical oxygen have died.

When his mother Usha Shakya was admitted to Patan Hospital with Covid-19, Ujjwal Shakya had to get an oxygen cylinder because the government facility had just enough for patients already there.

He tried the nearby oxygen plant at the Pat...