Health Care in Dolpa: New Era of Trust and Hope

Authors

  • Anup Mangal Samal Karnali Academy of health Sciences

Abstract

Dolpa is a mountainous region in mid-west Nepal, one of the ten districts of province number six that covers 5.36% of the nation’s total landmass. Like much of rural Nepal, its treacherous terrain and lack of properly enabling infrastructures make it highly inaccessible, limiting availability of every requirements for the mountain residents, including basic health care. Just to make it worse, Dolpa still awaits a touch of vehicular road access and thus happens to be the one out of only two districts in this nation (other being Humla) where the only mode of transportation in either by air or by foot. It is not a surprise to acknowledge the fact that patients in this district are in every way, prone to delayed treatment that can be further detrimental to patients in need of immediate medical attention.

Published

2019-11-02

How to Cite

1.
Samal AM. Health Care in Dolpa: New Era of Trust and Hope. Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences [Internet]. 2019Nov.2 [cited 2024Apr.26];1(1):29-30. Available from: https://www.jkahs.org.np/jkahs/index.php/jkahs/article/view/125

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018): JKAHS; Jan-Apr Issue (1)

Section

Review Articles

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