War is bad for health
To understand how badly the conflict is affecting the health of Nepalis, a visit to this rudimentary 15-bed hospital, the only government-run facility in the remote district of Rukum in mid-western Nepal, is enough.
To understand how badly the conflict is affecting the health of Nepalis, a visit to this rudimentary 15-bed hospital, the only government-run facility in the remote district of Rukum in mid-western Nepal, is enough.
Inadequately-funded, understaffed and caught between the guerrillas and the soldiers, hospital staff struggle to do the best they can to cope with help from an international charity group. Some patients are direct victims of conflict, wounded by explosives or bullets, but thousands of others are indirectly affected by under-nourishment, a lack of vaccines and unsafe drinking water. Then there are the thousands who are still beyond the reach of basic health care.
Even before the conflict flared up here eight years ago, this rugged and roadless district, with a peacetime population of 250,000, was among those with the worst health and education statistics in the kingdom. Massive numbers of young men and women have left, and life for the very young and very old who remained behind in the remote outlying hamlets is much worse than before.
Source:Ratopati
To understand how badly the conflict is affecting the health of Nepalis, a visit to this rudimentary 15-bed hospital, the only government-run facility in the remote district of Rukum in mid-western Nepal, is enough.
Inadequately-funded, understaffed and caught between the guerrillas and the soldiers, hospital staff struggle to do the best they can to cope with help from an international charity group. Some patients are direct victims of conflict, wounded by explosives or bullets, but thousands of others are indirectly affected by under-nourishment, a lack of vaccines and unsafe drinking water. Then there are the thousands who are still beyond the reach of basic health care.
Even before the conflict flared up here eight years ago, this rugged and roadless district, with a peacetime population of 250,000, was among those with the worst health and education statistics in the kingdom. Massive numbers of young men and women have left, and life for the very young and very old who remained behind in the remote outlying hamlets is much worse than before.
Source:Ratopati
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