Thulo Syabru Health Clinic

Summary of Project:

     Thulo Syabru is a remote village in the Langtang area. It is reachable only on foot. The nearest healthcare is 3 hours away. This clinic now serves this village and several nearby villages.

Total Funding Goal:

$5,000 USD

For one full year of clinic operations

How You Can Help:

•  $30 pays clinic staff wages for 10 days
  
•  $50 pays wages and medical supplies for 10 days
  
•  $100 pays for staff, supplies and medicine for 10 days
  

More Information About This Project:

     To reach Thulo Syabru itʼs a three hour walk from the nearest road. Before this clinic sick or injured people, including pregnant women, had to walk three hours down a steep trail to go to a health post and three hours back up the same steep trail to reach home safely. The reach of the people served by this clinic is geographically huge and reaches as far as Gossaikund a three day walk up from here.

Activities:

     The clinic is staffed with one CMA (Certified Medical Assistant) and a Staff Nurse. Medicine is sold at wholesale cost. No patients are ever turned away because they have no money.

Where This Project Is Located:

This Project is located in the Rasuwa District of Nepal just a few kilometers from Tibet.

Nepal and Rasuwa Facts:
Rasuwa is an isolated and very rural area. Most of the district is accessible only on foot. Primarily Tamang people live here. Tamang are closely related to Tibetans and practice many Tibetan customs. They are a marginalized group who had no rights at all until the 1950ʼs.

• Total population of Rasuwa is about 44,000
• It is estimated that the Child and Maternal Mortality rates of this area has been almost two-to-three times higher than the national average. Nepal's average infant mortality rate, 78 deaths per 1000 live births, and average maternal mortality rate, 539 deaths per 100,000 live deliveries, are among the highest in the world.
• Government outreach immunization services has been so infrequent and irregular that many children are left without immunization against the major childhood illnesses.