HealthCare Programs
HHC provides primary health care to remote villages in the Dhading District of Nepal.
We got our start by providing basic medical care to remote villages during treks. We built on this experience to organize medical treks, establish permanent healthposts in the region, and train local healthworkers. Medical treks give villagers access to trained medical profssionals; healthposts provide a permanent presence essential to long-term health gains.
Through these efforts, today HHC provides primary care, including prenatal care and treatment of infectious diseases, to over 13,000 people living in the villages of Tipling, Sherthung, Borang, Lapa and Jharlang. These villages are located in a remote region northwest of Kathmandu in the Dhading District, an area with a large lower-caste population trapped in the grinding poverty associated with subsistence farming.
In 1998 we helped the local people establish a new village health post in the remote mountain village of Simigaon, located in the Rolwaling region of the Dolakha district, about 100 miles east of Kathmandu. Over two thousand villagers—as well as trekkers—benefit from this healthpost, which is run by two Sherpa women trained with support from HHC.
