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To bring safe birthing facilities and basic health care to a remote village in Nepal. Currently in this isolated region, cut off for up to 8 months of the year, the population of 30,000 villagers have no access to maternity services and have to travel considerable distances to access health care
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Situation
Maternal and neonatal death rates in rural Nepal are many times more than those in more developed countries. In this remote and isolated mountainous area mothers currently have no access to hygienic birthing facilities, and the population of 40,000 have to travel considerable distances through difficult terrain to access basic health care. For up to 8 months of the year the area around Preeti becomes even more isolated when snows, ice and landslides block roads and tracks
Solution
By establishing a Health and Birthing Centre poor and disadvantaged families living in Preeti, and surrounding villages, will for the first time be able to access local birthing facilities, ante and post natal care, general healthcare (including immunisation, wound care, treatment of acute illnesses, contraception) and health education. The new facilities will be built in partnership with local non governmental organisations and in line with Nepalese Ministry of Health requirements
