[e-drug] Experience on mobile clinics sought (cont'd)

[Shiba Karkee <dspc@bnmt.org.np>]

E-drug: Experience on mobile clinics sought (cont'd)
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In Nepal, where about 35 hill districts do not have facilities of
modern transportation, people have to walk about 1 to 3 days to
reach the district hospital, and the local PHC outlets run by the
public system are poorly organised, the following types of services
are provided through the mobile clinics.

a. Mobile voluntary surgical contraception (VSC) camps: The
    service includes vasectomy, minilap and laparoscopy. The doctor
    from the district hospital is responsible to organise the mobile
    camps.
b. PHC outreach clinics: In this system the health posts/sub-health
    posts send their maternal and child health workers to a
    pre-arranged place (three to five villages) at a predetermined time
    once per month to provide PHC services.
c. Mobile teams for controlling outbreaks of communicable
    diseases: Every year outbreaks of diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid,
    ARI, influenza, fever, measles etc are common in different
    districts. Medical teams, medicines and other supplies are sent to
    the districts to help them to control the outbreaks.
d. Specific mobile teams: Medical teams for the treatment of
    specific problems are sent by different NGOs to the prearranged
    places at predetermined time.

Unfortunately, little information is available about the quality,
coverage and outcome of the services. 

Shiba Karkee
Drug Schemes Programme Co-ordinator,
Britain Nepal Medical Trust,
PO Box 9, Biratnagar, Nepal.
e-mail: dspc@bnmt.org.np


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