In Nepal many complex & challenging factors hinder access to medical care. We partner with a non-profit organisation called Medical Rehabilitation Organisation (MeRO) who operate a medical Shelter in Kathmandu. Between us we fund & facilitate medical and surgical intervention, nursing care, physiotherapy & rehabilitation services for people who have experienced life changing illness or injury and cannot access such services due to poverty. We improve health and change lives, one life at a time.
Medical care is not free in Nepal and a fifth of the population live in poverty. Most of MeRO's patients live in rural and remote regions where hospitals are poorly resourced, inadequately funded and insufficiently staffed. Many patients experience barriers, challenges & extensive delays in receiving appropriate and timely medical care, often with catastrophic consequences. They are also vulnerable to exploitation due to poor health literacy, poverty and have often inherited a huge medical debt.
Our support enables our project partner organisation, MeRO, operate and staff a twenty bed medical Shelter in Kathmandu where patients stay. MeRO advocates for them and navigates the complex, expensive, often corrupt medical system on their behalf. Our project funds medical & surgical intervention, nursing care, physiotherapy and rehabilitation services for every patient referred to the Shelter as they travel down their often long road to rehabilitation. Everything is provided for free.
We change lives, one life at a time. Almost 1500 individual lives have been changed so far. Multiply that by many times to encompass the impact on the lives of significant others. We enable timely access to quality medical care for patients who are usually critically injured or seriously unwell by the time they are referred to MeRO. Without our support, lives would be lost; patients would sink deeper into disability, poor health, debt and poverty. Patients also have a place to go that cares.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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