Since there are no health facility nearby of Gurja, SolHimal plans to open a clinic in the village . Open to all, it is intended to meet the immediate needs of the villagers. It should also organize various activities for prevention: fight against worms, vitamins campaign, awareness of the AIDS virus, campaign on hygiene personal ... The building housing the clinic began in October 2008; it should benefit more than 3000 people . Training in hygiene and nutrition was held in October 2008 in three villages. Women's groups had previously been identified as the best relay the information to the community. Often illiterate, women play a leading role in agriculture, education of children and good conduct of homes. The visuals were therefore privileged. Establishment of adult education provides SolHimal implement training for adults. These will be taught at Gurja in the new building and Gurung Gaun and Arkhaule within old buildings renovated.
Essentially for adults, the training will come in the form of courses and workshops covering various areas: literacy - Health - Nutrition - Contraception - relationships between men and women ... These important matters directly affecting the daily lives of residents. The awareness of these problems is again to improve the living conditions of inhabitants. The building to house the new training center has also Gurja began in October 2008.
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HEALTH CENTER
Development Project No. Will Work Without the full support and backings of the People Who are you people working for and With. Before "any work started on developing the Gurje Village area Umbrella met with the people; the community leaders, the farmers, the women and the parents. From these meetings two areas presented themselves as being the two main areas of concern for the community. These are; education and health care.
Thanks to an extremely generous private donation , through our partner organisation SolHimal, work began on constructing a village Health Post which will provide primary health care for Gurje Village.
A lack of health care is not a problem for Gurje village exclusively, it is estimated that this health post will serve 3,000 people from the surrounding 9 village catchment areas . This health which will provide primary health care to 9 village catchments who would have had to otherwise travel to Kathmandu for medical attention.
The health post will be manned by a health assistant nurse, HSN, a midwife, a community motivator and will have regular visits form a qualified doctor and dentist. Umbrella have consulted with the District Health Office, DHO, at every stage of the planning and it is the intention of Umbrella to work in conjunction with national initiatives such as distribution of vaccines and vitamin.
The key to the health post's success is a solid line of referral. If there are illnesses or injuries that cannot be treated in this health post an ambulance service will be provided to bring the patients to Kathmandu. This ambulance will also serve as a mobile clinic for the surrounding communities.
Prevention I obviously better than a cure and education is the best form of prevention. The health post also includes a training hall to be used to educate the community on various health care practices and issues such as first aid, hygiene, nutrition, sexual health and family planning.
