KALIKOT, JAN 09 - More than five hundred persons received free health check up and medicines earlier this week at a community health awareness camp at Manma, the Headquarters of Kalikot district.
According to Yuban Malla, programme co-ordinator, a team comprising two doctors, two nurses and three support staff conducted the camp for three days from 4th January on.
According to Dr. Pramod Khanal, one of the doctors involved in the camp, though people suffer from asthma, gastritis and pneumonia, most women especially suffer from gynaecological problems.
He also said that health facilities are non-existent in Manma and people are too poor to travel to other towns for check up and treatment.
"There is a great need of medicines and the services of health professionals, especially for children and mothers. We plan to hold such camps in villages outside the headquarters for a month," said Malla.
The camp was organised by Mid-West Relief and Rehabilitation Programme of World Vision Nepal, which has been running Food For Work programme, health post renovation and school renovation, educational materials distribution and micro enterprises development programmes in Jumla and Kalikot.
World Food Programme, UNICEF and World Vision Hong Kong have supported Mid-West Relief and Rehabilitation Programme. The programme was launched after a survey done by World Vision Nepal earlier last year, which showed a pervasive level of acute and chronic malnutrition in the hill districts of Nepal.Posted on: 2004-01-10 02:45

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