Health Care Improvement Program Nepal - 60 Days
Hope and Home promotes sustainable solutions to world poverty and
disparity through global partnerships in development, education,
health, and service.
Each year, many Nepalese die or suffer unnecessarily due to lack
of health education and access to adequate health care resources. The
sick in the mountain regions or villages sometimes die long before a
physician can even diagnose. Because of the poor transportation,
patients often have to be hand-carried in bamboo baskets to the nearest
health center, often many miles from their village.
Individuals with special knowledge in the following areas are always needed.
Primary Care and General Medicine
General Dentistry/ Oral Surgery
Pediatrics
Gynecology and Women's Health
Health Education
HIV/AIDS counseling
Volunteer
Program is working to address these issues by sponsoring village level
community health initiatives, to do this we need volunteers who can
train Nepalese health workers as well as provide direct health care
services.
Our Medicine projects are an invaluable preparation for a career
in medicine. You will experience the stark contrast between Western
medical practice and the realities of medicine in developing countries.
Sadly, you will also see medical conditions that have remained
untreated and have developed to an advanced pathological stage uncommon
in developed countries.
The key requirements in a medical volunteer are initiative,
enthusiasm, and readiness to work in unfamiliar circumstances - a
surgery with minimal equipment, an understaffed hospital, a clinic for
leprosy or tuberculosis patients. This program has the potential to
give you plenty of hands-on experience and exposure to the medical
field.
HIV/AIDS Care and Education Program
In Nepal there is a serious stigma attached to those with
HIV/AIDS. People have limited knowledge about HIV/AIDS; many poor
people inNepal are not educated enough to understand the causes of AIDS
and how it is transmitted.
The instability that creates the problem of human trafficking also
generates considerable labor migration and internal displacement. Most
migrants and internally displaced persons are men who move to urban
areas either in search of employment or to escape the Maoist
insurgency, leaving their partners in rural areas. As a result,
Nepalese women face a higher risk of infection when their partners
return home from areas of high HIV prevalence. Compounding the problem,
many health facilities in rural areas of Nepal are either damaged or
destroyed completely. Nepal’s current lack of strong community
cohesiveness is creating a high risk environment for HIV infection.
Whilst prevalence in Nepal remains low relative to countries in Africa,
latest figures show that over 60,000 people have the HIV infection and
there is increasing alarm that the disease is escalating.
People who become infected are often excluded from their own
family's home and from society. In Kathmandu, some organizations are
working to improve HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and care of
HIV-infected patients. The goal of these groups' activities is to
foster awareness of the disease and work to change attitudes and
behavior towards those unfortunate enough to be infected. These clinics
are involved in many worthwhile activities:
Providing shelter for HIV/AIDS patients
Counseling HIV-positive people and their families
Volunteers in this project will work with local groups and will be responsible for a variety of tasks:
Counseling activities
Skill-sharing and training activities
Rendering help in treatment (trained volunteers with a health care background only)
Helping to prepare and present educational programs
Any related help requested by local organizations
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