Introduction of Okhaldhunga

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Okhaldhunga

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Introduction

Okhaldhunga District

Okhaldhunga District, a part of Sagarmatha Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Okhaldhunga as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,074 km² and has a population (2001) of 156,702. Okhaldhunga is part of area traditionally called Wallo Kirat(near Kirat),home to indigenous ethnic groups Rai and Sunuwar. Apart from these indigenous ethnic groups,other ethnics and hill castes live in the district.

Okhaldhunga Ragani

Ragani

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ragani
—  Village development committee  —
Ragani Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27.43°N 86.31°ECoordinates: 27.43°N 86.31°E
Country	Nepal
Zone	Sagarmatha Zone
District	Okhaldhunga District
Population (1991)
- Total	3,542
Time zone	Nepal Time (UTC+5:45)

Ragani is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3542 living in 678 individual households.^[1]

Village Development Committees

Andhari, Baksa, Balakhu, Baraneshwor, Barnalu, Betini, Bhadaure, Bhussinga, Bigutar, Bilandu, Chyanam, Diyale, Fediguth, Fulbari, Gamnangtar, Harkapur, Jantarkhani, Jyamire, Kalikadevi, Kaptigaun, Katunje, Ketuke, Khiji Chandeshwori, Khijifalate, Kuibhir, Kuntadevi, Madhavpur, Mamkha, Manebhanjyang, Moli, Mulkharka, Narmedeshwor, Palapu, Patle, Pokhare, Pokli, Prapchan, Ragani, Rajadeep, Raniban, Ratmata, Rawadolu, Rumjatar, Salleri, Serna, Shreechaur, Singhadevi, Sisneri, Taluwa, Tarkerabari, Thakle, Thoksela, Thulachhap, Ubu, Vadaure, Yasam

Okhaldhunga Hospital

Okhaldhunga Hospital

Background:
In the early 1960’s, a Ghurka soldier extended an invitation to a physician in the British Army to start a medical project in the Okhaldhunga district. From its humble beginnings as a small remote clinic, it has grown into a small community hospital with 45 inpatient beds and an active Public Health Unit. Nestled in a remote region of the foothills of the Himalayas due south from Mount Everest, the hospital is the only facility in Okhaldhunga district and additionally serves people in four surrounding districts, accounting for a population of more than 250,000 people. In comparison to other areas of Nepal, Okhaldhunga district is severely impoverished. A recent study by the community health team, found that less than 3% of all people in this district have any extra resources left after meeting the basic needs of feeding their family. This is also is an acute care general hospital.

This hospital treats about 30,000 outpatients every year and admits about 2500 cases. Surgical procedures depend on the availability of a surgeon. The hospital normally performs about 1000 surgical procedures per year. The surgical procedures here consist of emergency life-saving surgeries like caesarean sections, other obstetric emergencies, laparotomies, and trauma surgeries including craniotomies as well as some orthopedics, in addition to minor surgery. This hospital is not as well equipped as Tansen hospital for complicated surgery but a wide range of surgical procedures are being done. There are presently 59 Nepali staff and two expatriates working there.

This is also one of the more remote hospitals where family medicine doctors are trained for their district posting. These residents are trained in basic general surgery, obstetric and gynaecology and most of the time in basic anaesthesia. Therefore these residents provide crucial manpower in a hospital like this.

Facilities:
No constant motorable road, though there is a seasonal dirt road for transportation. Therefore this hospital can be reached by air ( 81 US Dollar one way from Kathmandu and 128 US Dollars return form Kathmandu as at April 2010) to Rumjatar and walk for 3 hours on foot. The hospital has:

• electricity and good water supply
• mobile phone coverage
• email and internet facilities - but the speed is very slow
• a regular mail service to and from Kathmandu once a week
• a guesthouse with basic facilities situated near to the hospital.

Okhaldhunga District

Okhaldhunga District, a part of Sagarmatha Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Okhaldhunga as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,074.5 km² and has a population (2001) of 156,702. Okhaldhunga is part of area traditionally called Wallo Kirat(near Kirat),home to indigenous ethnic groups Rai and Sunuwar. Apart from these indigenous ethnic groups,other ethnics and hill castes live in the district

 PokaliFalls.com.np is an organization started mainly for the upliftment of the local children. There is a big and the most magnificient , falls in the world which has decorated the whole Okhaldhunga, making it the most attractive place. Adjacent to the place is a big forest, popularly known as Gauri ban. Besides it is surrounded by a river known as Likhu river. The green hills adds extra beauty to the place. However, the people are bound to survive in extreme poverty and the children are deprived of education.
They do not get their regular food, nutrition is out of question. Thus, they badly needed care and health improvement. In such circumstances, parents are helpless providing education to their chidlren.Thus, with the blessings of god, if we could provide good education to the children, the future of Okhaldhunga would certainly be better. Yet, without certain amount of wealth elimination of poverty is impossible. In the year 2003, a primary level school had been started by the Nepal Government. Anyhow, with great difficulty, the PokaliFalls.com.np organization has dragged it to the lower secondary level. Yet the problem does not end here, as the school should provide secondary level of education too. Thus, the organization invites the people all over the world to come and visit the heavenly place Okhaldhunga as well as the most enchanting Pokali Falls.
Side by side, the organization requests the would be guests to have a look at the local people and the situation they are living at. The local people provide amusement to the Guests with their cultural programmes which includes Damphu Nach (dance) of Tamangs and Sherpas. The Jhakaris forecast the future of the visitors if they happen to wish. One can observe everything starting from religion to culture to the farming. The place is easily accessible as a road links it with the capital city of Kathmandu and there is a regular bus service too. Finally, the organization heartily invites the people to come and observe one of the most beautiful places of the world as well as have mercy on the poor and innocent people surviving there without any kind of grudge.
Background:

In the early 1960’s, a Ghurka soldier extended an invitation to a physician in the British Army to start a medical project in the Okhaldhunga district. From its humble beginnings as a small remote clinic, it has grown into a small community hospital with 45 inpatient beds and an active Public Health Unit. Nestled in a remote region of the foothills of the Himalayas due south from Mount Everest, the hospital is the only facility in Okhaldhunga district and additionally serves people in four surrounding districts, accounting for a population of more than 250,000 people. In comparison to other areas of Nepal, Okhaldhunga district is severely impoverished. A recent study by the community health team, found that less than 3% of all people in this district have any extra resources left after meeting the basic needs of feeding their family. This is also is an acute care general hospital.

This hospital treats about 30,000 outpatients every year and admits about 2500 cases. Surgical procedures depend on the availability of a surgeon. The hospital normally performs about 1000 surgical procedures per year. The surgical procedures here consist of emergency life-saving surgeries like caesarean sections, other obstetric emergencies, laparotomies, and trauma surgeries including craniotomies as well as some orthopedics, in addition to minor surgery. This hospital is not as well equipped as Tansen hospital for complicated surgery but a wide range of surgical procedures are being done. There are presently 59 Nepali staff and two expatriates working there.

In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. An insurgency led by Maoist extremists broke out in 1996. The ensuing ten-year civil war between insurgents and government forces witnessed the dissolution of the cabinet and parliament and assumption of absolute power by the king. Several weeks of mass protests in April 2006 were followed by several months of peace negotiations between the Maoists and government officials, and culminated in a November 2006 peace accord and the promulgation of an interim constitution. Following a nation-wide election in April 2008, the newly formed Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a federal democratic republic and abolished the monarchy at its first meeting the following month. The Constituent Assembly elected the country's first president in July. The Maoists,