We are renovating and staffing an abandoned hospital in Western Nepal, to treat a region that previously had only 1 doctor for several hundred thousand people.
The health situation in this area is the worst in South Asia. A pregnant woman has a 1 out of 100 chance of dying in childbirth in this region, about 100 times higher than in the United States. The high mortality rate is coupled with frequent trauma among children and a total lack of essential health delivery infrastructure. We will renovate the hospital in this area to provide essential medical and surgical services to this community.
This will involve renovating an abandoned hospital; shipping in diagnostic X-ray, ultrasound and laboratory equipment; and providing training and supplies to local healthcare practitioners to run the hospital.
This community has among the worst health indicators in Asia. We anticipate that these services will reduce maternal and infant mortality by half, reduce chronic infections by over 75% after three years, and avert 50% of preventable childhood deaths.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
