Nepal-based international community issued a joint statement expressing their deepest concern at the critical and growing shortages of essential and lifesaving medicines and supplies at health care facilities on Tuesday.

This is the first time a joint statement has been issued since the blockade began which has led to critical shortages of medicines in the country.  

The statement issued by World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Department for International Development (DFID), German Development Cooperation (GDC, GIZ, KfW), and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) states that the present crisis is grave and if it continues the effects will exacerbate.