Add Project Type: Health and Sanitation

Community Health Center provides free basic medical services, personal hygiene awareness, changing the individual approach towards preventive health care and helped reduce negative stereotypes against modern health care practices. This led to an improvement in the general quality of life of the communities. The provision of prenatal and postnatal health care services can reduce child and maternal mortality rates.

Humla, Mugu and Dolpa are the northern most and remotest district of Karnali Province. The federal structure comprises 4 Palikas, 8 Palikas in Dolpa and 7 Palikas in Humla. All the districts of Karnali province have already declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF) zone while total sanitation promotion has been initiated in few Palikas of aforesaid districts at small scale. Though, there is significant progress on installation and use of basic sanitation (i.e. construction and use of toilets) in these districts, the proper management and hygienic use of toilets, hand washing during critical time, child faces management, institutional WASH management and functionality of water supply schemes still remains a challenge. The ODF sustainability and its further improvement aligning with sustainable development goals (SDG # 6) is comprehended in these area as well.

Out of these Palikas, Simkot Rural Municipality, Humla, Chhayanath Rara Municipality, Mugu and Thulibheri Municipality, Dolpa have been selected for this project.

Due to poor hygienic conditions, especially in rural areas of Nepal, many people suffer from illnesses such as diarrhea, scabies or skin diseases. Therefore apart from health projects Chay-Ya offers hygienic education. Top priority is given to the implementation of toilettes. Comic signs explaining parents of children down with diarrhea how to stop contamination of water. These signs especially address an alphabets and explain how simple hygienic rules are protecting whole families from severe illness. Free tooth paste, toothbrushes and soap are incentives for drawing interest and inciting people to implement those rules. Due to these measures personal hygiene of children has improved considerably in the past few years.

This Community Health Services Support Project is carried out from the financial support of Red Charity and Government of Nepal/Palungtar Municipality. The implementation work at community level is done by Chay Ya Nepal in collaboration with Palungtar Community Health Center Management Committee. This project will provide Eight (8) rooms building using Earth Bricks.
In ongoing construction of Palungtar Community Health Center, foundation work was completed, with soling of footing section and above it PCC, also lower and upper tie beams construction connecting to all footing section of the building was completed. The plinth brick wall was raised in between upper and lower tie beams, and plinth casting was completed. The curing of plinth section was regularly carried out for more than 15 days.
The underground concrete water tank was constructed raising from lower tie beam up to upper tie beam of the building at plinth level for the storage of water supply for the health center.
At present, the columns of the building are being raised, and concrete column casting will be carried out along with wall construction and fittings of windows and doors frames.

Being one of the most beautiful and isolated places in the world, the Nepalese Himalaya also poses a threat for its inhabitants in terms of basic health care services. Living in the Tsum Valley means that it takes days to reach the doctor. Locals lack basic health facilities and maternal services. Antibiotics and other medicines aren’t available. One small cut can lead to blood poisoning, giving birth is highly challenging and even the flu can be fatal.
Given this scenario, Chay Ya has built a Birthing Center and Outreach Clinic in Tsum Nubri RM-7, Lar, Gorkha in association with Scouts of Austria, Medi Himal, Government of Austria and YONSED.
The Birthing Centre building is a single-storied dry stone with timber tie-beam construction, located in the center of Chhekampar VDC.
Health center was inaugurated on 28 October 2016 by District Public Health Officer- Gorkha, Mr. Kedar Raj Parajuli . The main objective of the center is to provide basic primary and maternity health services to the local people.

Chay Ya Nepal offers free mobile health camps. In remote mountain villages of Nepal medical services are limited. People have to walks 5-7 hours to see the next medical staff. Chay Ya team along with its local NGO partners have conducted several Free Health Camp in Gorkha, Rasuwa and Dolpa Districts. This health camp benefited people lacking basic health care facilities and medicines. Since 2012, team of doctors and nurses yearly visits the villages of Gorkha. Mules carry necessary medicines needed for the camp. We have to walk for several days to reach the villages with aid supplies like medicine, water filters, school materials and warm clothing for the children.
Every year around 700-800 patients receive medical care through Chay Ya.