RIGHT TO HEALTH
The project, carried out thanks to the 8×1000 funds of the Waldensian Table and the Prosolidar Foundation, intervenes in two priority sectors in the field of health through the organization of mobile medical camps that reach the beneficiaries at their usual places of life and aggregation in order to facilitate access to the services offered and maximize the impact of the activities: female reproductive health and oral health.
The context
Although there is still no reliable data on the economic impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Nepal, the long lockdowns and their effect on families who supported themselves from “hand-to-mouth” jobs have produced dramatic consequences. A direct effect of poverty is the greater difficulty of accessing health care. In the experience gained on site by MpP, and confirmed by the local partner, there are two areas of particular shortage in the health sector: oral health and reproductive health.
Activities
In this context, the health intervention of Doctors for Peace is aimed at two target groups of beneficiaries:
- Gynecological mobile camps
- Doctors for Peace and the partner organization Benchen Monastery Free Clinic intend to organize 7 gynecological mobile camps in the area surrounding the Upper Pharping (mountainous area located south of Kathmandu) in order to help ensure the protection of the reproductive health of girls and women in conditions of severe socio-economic marginality living in the area.
- Mobile Dental Fields:
- During the project, 6 mobile dental camps will also be organized aimed at offering dental care to at least 1,100 people in socio-economic disadvantaged conditions. The free provision of care will also be an opportunity to convey to the beneficiaries notions of oral hygiene education, in order to preserve the health of the oral cavity and prevent further diseases.
