Health Camp Organised in Mugu
Help Nepal Network (HeNN)—a global charity-- in collaboration with Health Care Nepal organized a health camp at the Help Nepal Health Post in Mugu district last month.
More than 3,500 people from Mugu, Jumla and Humla districts visited the camp for medical check-up. A team of medical doctors led by Jack Starmer, chairman of Health Care Nepal—a US-baed charity— checked patients and provided free medicines. Other members of the medical team included Dr. Fredrick Basilico, a cardiologist and Dr Judith Waligunda, MD, Internal Medicine, New England Baptist Hospital, Boston. Both of them are faculty of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Subarna Mani Acharya, Senior Cardiologist from Health Care Nepal (Nepal)and Erica Nakajima, an MD student, also checked patients.
Arun Singh Basnet, president of HeNN Nepal, led a team of volunteers at the camp. Help Nepal staff and 30 local volunteers worked day and night to manage the four-day camp (Oct 17-20). Nepal Police personnel had also been deployed to manage the crowd.
HeNN thanked the medical team and local communities for their support to make the camp a success. "Providing expert medical advice and treatment to people in Karnali from senior doctors from USA and Nepal has reinforced our commitment to help the needy especially in remote areas," said the organization.
A three-day Training of Trainers (ToT) program on Sanitation and Nutrition was also organized at the health post by Lata Ghimire, who is a health coordinator and executive board member of Help Nepal Network Nepal. A total 95 health workers took part in the ToT.
HeNN had constructed the Health Post in Murma village of Mugu to provide basic health services to people living in remote areas. nepalnews.com Nov 14 08
