Medicine scarcity in the markets due to closed borders. Various districts across the country are reeling under an acute shortage of medicine, including life saving drugs, owing to Indian blockade on Nepal-India border and protests of the Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha in Tarai districts. Drug entrepreneurs said around 400 trucks laden with medicine are stranded at various border points. Fourteen pharmaceutical industries along the Birgung-Hetauda section stopped medicine production due to the lack of raw materials and security threats.
Nepal has been hit with fuel shortages since early August, when the Himalayan nation introduced a new constitution, which has upset the Madhesi ethnic group on the southern plains bordering India.
