Incident Reports

Dr KC resumes fast-onto-death

2015-09-19

Bagmati, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

Dr Govinda KC, an orthopaedic surgeon of TU Teaching Hospital has resumed fast-onto-death for the seventh time from Saturday, expressing his dissatisfactions over the non-implementation of the Mathema report. He stated that the government failed to live up to its promises to address his demands thoroughly. He had agreed to break his sixth fast-onto-death on September 5 with signing an 11-point agreement with the government. The Mathema report is about the reforms in the medical sector. RSS
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Other forms of non-violent protest
Primary Cause Issues related to the quality of public services (health, education etc.)and access to these services
Actor 1 - Number of people 1
Actor 1 - Affiliations Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Government and civil servants at central level
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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