Nepal: Kanti Childrens Hospital
Kanti Children’s Hospital Updates – September to October 2015: RMF to Provide Ongoing Support
November 03, 2015
Support to Kanti Children’s Hospital – The Only Referral Level Children’s Hospital of Nepal
Kanti Children’s Hospital is the only government referral level Children’s Hospital of Nepal. The hospital was established in 1963 as a general hospital with 50 beds, and today has a capacity of 320 beds. The hospital treats children up to the age of 14 from all over the country, a total target population of 13-14 million children. Following the earthquake, where parts of hospital building were damaged, there is in general a need for equipment and capacity building for better health service delivery.
RMF supported the local NGO (Social Action Volunteers- SAV) based at Kanti Children’s Hospital to conduct health camps in one of the earthquake-affected areas in Nuwakot district. In the previous month, RMF had supported the hospital with medicines and medical supplies, among which some of the medicines were also distributed through the health camps with support of 5 doctors from the hospital.
Currently, RMF is preparing to support Kanti Children’s Hospital through a longer-term partnership. Currently, the NGO based at Kanti is supporting the hospital through provision of free lodging to the families of ultra poor children inside the hospital premises, providing poor children (around 300 in the in cost-free wards) with nutritious food, coordinating with donors or even purchasing expensive medicines that these children’s families couldn’t afford, organizing trips/ excursions for children at the cancer ward, running entertainment/ play sections for the children to make the hospital more child-friendly, and organizing/ storing blood as and when required. Due to lack of funds, the NGO is going to withdraw their support to these children from very poor economic backgrounds and reduce their activities. They could potentially close down if any support isn’t secured in near future.
In this light, RMF is looking into possibilities of continuing these initiations to ensure that these critical services to the children at the only Children’s Hospital in Nepal are continued.
Indoor and Outdoor Playrooms supported by SAV:
Background
Kanti Children’s Hospital is the only government referral level Children’s Hospital of Nepal. The hospital was established in 1963 as a general hospital with 50 beds, which today have a capacity of 320 beds. The hospital treats children up to the age of 14 from all over the country, a total target population of 13-14 million children. Following the earthquake, where parts of hospital building were damaged, there is in general a need for equipment and capacity building for better health service delivery.
Objectives
- Provide necessary medical supplies, blood, and nutritional support for patients. Also providing access and transportation to testing and procedures
- Give instruction of patients needs, education, amenities during hospital stay, and financial support to family of the patient
- Management to various hospital programs such as a blood drive program, a free-of-cost kitchen for patients and families, playroom and library for patients and siblings, and clothes bank for needy patients and family
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