Population Nepal
Total population: 28 milions
In rual areas: 85%
In urban areas: 15%
People living in poverty: 31%
(less than 1 USD/day)
Life expectancy: 67 years
Litteracy rate: 51%
Rural Nepal
• Limited access to No electricity,
roads, sanitation, healthcare
• Very difficult to recruit skilled
medical personell
• Many people living hours or
days from the closest hospital
Urban Nepal
• Mix of modern technology, good
facilities and slums.
• Extreme polution (garbage &
open sewers)
• Healthcare is expensive. Living 5
min from a hospital doesn’t mean
you have access to healthcare
Health in Nepal
• Good healthcare is availiable, but not everywhere and
often very expensive
• There is an existing infrastructure of over 4.000
healtposts across the country. But they fail to provide
good quality service.
• Many deseases are identified too late due to bad
communications
• Basic things such as hygene, safe water & knowledge
how to treat basic illness is lacking.
• Only 50% of the people have access to safe water.
Maternal health
- 33 out of 1000 children die within
28 days or birth
- 3 out of 1000 mothers die in
childbirth.
- It is common that the child suffers
trauma during childbirth resulting
in permanent brain damange.
- 80 % of deliveries are done at
home.
Cause of maternal death
- 46% Postpartum haemorrhage (Excessive bleeding)
- 16% obstructed labor
- 14% pre/eclapsia (due to high blood pressure)
- 12% sepsis (infection due to unhygienic conditions)
- 5% abortion
- 5% antepartum haemorrhage (bleeding after the 24 week
of pregnancy)
Cause of children dying in childbirth
- Asphyxia (most common) occurs when an infant’s airway is
constricted for a time often caused by trauma during labor
- Sepsis (infection due to unhygienic conditions)
- Low birth weight
- Premature birth
- Hypothermia (body temperature drops too low)
Childrens health
- 6% of the children die before
reaching 5 years of age
- Most common cause of death:
Pneumonia and diarrhoea
- 51% of the children suffer from
malnutrition.
- The child is often brought to the
hospital when the disease is
already in an advanced stage.
Common diseases in children
- Most common cause of death: Pneumonia
- 26 % of deaths caused by diarrhea
- Worm infestations
- Tetanus
- Japanese encephalitis
- 51 % stunted growth (malnutrition), 21% severly affected
- Accidents (cuts, fractures, burns etc)
Womens health
- Low status of women in the society
results in bad health
- Uterine prolapse common in young
women.
200.000 in need of immediete
sugrical treatment
- Cervical cancer
Lack of good diagnosis and
affordable test. The cancer is often
identified only in a late stage.
Womens health
- Breast Cancer
Lack of early diagnosis. Breast cancer is usually recoginzed
only in the 3rd of 4th stage.
- A study showed that out of 8434 women with breast cancer
only 264 were diagnosed before the study.
- Less than 1 % go for mamography
- 50.000 women sufferts from breast cancer