In Nepal, in recent months, we are building the gynecological mobile camps planned as part of the “Right to Health 2” project, supported by the funds of the Otto per mille of the Waldensian Table.

In the decade 2010-2020, teenage pregnancies in Nepal affected 88 girls per 100,000. Only 58% of births take place in the presence of specialized medical personnel. The disparity in access to prevention and treatment regarding reproductive health generates serious effects: most cases of cervical cancer (the most common among Nepalese women), for example, are diagnosed at an advanced stage and explain the high mortality rate correlated with it.

Thanks to this important project, during the mobile camps set up in the villages of rural areas we can offer girls and women a gynaecological specialist examination, a general medical examination, a pap screening test for the early diagnosis of cervical cancer and, if necessary, further tests and treatments.

The gynaecological field is only one of the three sectors in which the project intervenes: again thanks to the tool of mobile camps, we also offer cardiological examinations to school students and dental care to the most disadvantaged people.