Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality Establishes Six Basic Health Units to Improve Remote Access to Care

Bhojpur. The Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality has taken necessary initiatives to provide basic health services easily to the locals who have been facing problems due to geographical remoteness. Considering the hardship locals faced in accessing basic health services, six basic health units have been established in remote locations here.

Although there is one health post in each of the nine wards, the basic health units have been brought into operation targeting citizens who have to travel long distances to reach the health posts. Rural Municipality Chairman Saroj Basnet informed that the municipality is providing services by operating health units, keeping in mind the situation where locals in this geographically large and remote rural municipality have to walk for three to five hours to access health services.

According to him, the health units have been launched with the objective of providing immediate primary health services when citizens need them, distributing basic medicines, providing first aid, and referring seriously ill patients with necessary advice and suggestions.

“People were having trouble accessing timely health services due to geographical remoteness,” Chairman Basnet said, “We have brought six basic health units into operation to provide easy health services to the locals. We plan to expand both the quality and reach of the service in the coming days.”

Currently, health units are operational in Khambukh in Ward No. 1 Timma, Rumla and Wadungla in Ward No. 2, Cholanti in Ward No. 5 Khawa, and Bairang and Kavre in Ward No. 9 Lekharka, which are considered geographically remote areas. The rural municipality stated that basic medicines, first aid services, and necessary health consultations are being provided in these locations.

Rural Municipality Vice-Chairperson Ramadevi Rai stated that the health units were established to end the situation where locals in remote areas lose their lives prematurely due to not receiving basic medical treatment. “Health is wealth for people,” Vice-Chairperson Rai said, “It is the right of citizens to receive basic health services easily. It is our duty to bring the state's service to the doorstep of the citizens.” According to her, there are also plans to operate health awareness promotion, regular vaccination services, safe motherhood programs, and sanitation-related awareness activities.

According to local resident Gorakh Bahadur Bista, the compulsion to walk for hours for common medicines like paracetamol and ORS has ended after the establishment of the health unit in the village.

“Previously, even for a common fever, it took half a day to reach the health post,” he said, “It is much easier now to get treatment in the village.” With the establishment of the health units, the trust of the locals in health services has increased. Locals said that an environment has been created to receive immediate treatment in emergency situations.

Locals say that this campaign, initiated with the objective of bringing basic health services within reach of citizens in remote areas, has directly benefited them.