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Nepal Earthquake - Community First Aid Response

Nepal Earthquake - Community First Aid Response

Nepal Earthquake - Community First Aid Response

Nepal Earthquake - Community First Aid Response

Nepal Earthquake - Community First Aid Response

Rajesh Lama
Rajesh Lama
Rajesh Lama
Rajesh Lama
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Kathmandu, Nepal
$975 USD 12 backers
3% of $32,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

In response to the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal on April 25, 2015, the Nepal based wilderness medical organization, Himalayan Medics, is rolling out a project to respond to medical needs in remote communities, cut off from medical assistance, and build the capacity of those communities to manage common injuries that result from regularly reoccurring disasters through an emergency first aid training programme.

In many mountainous districts, building destruction reaches nearly 90 percent. In this context, those who are too remote to have been reached by relief efforts continue to sleep outdoors, with no form of shelter, in deteriorating weather conditions as the monsoon season rapidly approaches. The risk of spreading infection and disease remains high with exposure, untreated wounds and improper sanitation facilities.

At Himalayan Medics we plan to respond in the areas we know best: the badly affected remote and rural mountain villages.

This mega-disaster has attracted a massive international humanitarian response, providing much needed support to the people of Nepal in disaster relief, response and recovery. However, as a Nepali organisation, at Himalayan Medics we understand the reality of regularly reoccurring smaller disasters, which impact these remote communities on an annual basis. Field hospitals do not reach those in more remote areas, and they do not help to build the capacity of remote communities to response to critical medical needs as they regularly arise.

Himalayan Medics plans bring small groups of wilderness medics and high altitude doctors into unreached communities with two purposes:

1. To treat those injured in affected villages in order to prevent unnecessary deaths and the spread of disease;

2. To deliver a practical, hands-on, emergency first aid training to locals in order to enable them to continue treatment of the wounded and respond to other such injuries in future disasters.

Our efforts will include the provision of:

- 1 community sized, fully stocked, first aid kit;

- Tarps or tents to provide shelter to those whose homes have been damaged or destroyed;

- A response team of qualified doctors and wilderness first responders to treat the injured; and

- A practical training programme on emergency first aid.

Our first aid course will also include sections on mountain risk management, to prepare communities for future risks inherent in their environment, as well as sanitation and hygiene to sensitize people on the prevention of disease and epidemic.

All relief efforts will be coordinated with the assessments and relief efforts of the United Nations, in order to ensure we reach those communities that are most in need and those that are not being reached by other teams.

Your support is urgently required to support these communities. Estimated cost to deliver these services in one community is $6500. Our initial goal is to cover five communities, and any additional funds will be used to expand the effort further. Stories and photos from each community we reach will be provided for donors. This is a great opportunity for social groups, school groups, etc. to come together to sponsor a remote Himalayan community.

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