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Nepal Rising has been actively involved in mitigating critical issues in Nepal. Recently, with the rampant rise of COVID-19 cases and lack for healthcare infrastructure, Nepal Rising has started a fundraiser to immediately provide much needed relief. You can visit their fundraiser page and read more about their current efforts.

https://nepalrising.org/covid-wave2

Help us provide 400 critically ill patients with life-saving oxygen in Nepal

The second wave of COVID-19 virus has struck Nepal with deadly force. Every day, more than 7,000 new cases are reported and the death toll is growing. With less than 1,500 ICU beds and 600 ventilators currently available to service a population of nearly 30 million people, the health system is already overwhelmed. Hospitals are already turning patients away due to a lack of bed space and oxygen. The government estimates that an additional 48,000 cylinders are needed to meet the current demand. 

Local community-driven isolation centers are providing a critical link in the frayed health-care system in Nepal. Covid patients needing oxygen are kept under supervision of a doctor until a hospital bed is available, buying precious time for patients battling Covid.

Nepal Rising is working with CoVID Alliance for Nepal, non-profit CREASION and other grassroots partners on the ground to support community isolation centers and hospitals requiring oxygen concentrators and cylinders.

We have only 2 weeks to get 100 life-saving oxygen cylinders to critical Covid patients in Nepal

You can help us obtain critical oxygen and save lives.

From Nepal Rising Fundraiser Page

Please visit their fund-raiser page to get more information and if you have the resource, please help by donating to the cause.

https://nepalrising.org/covid-wave2

Rajesh Shrestha, an active member of Nepal Rising , Seattle is also a member of Nepali Community Health Board.

Nepal Seattle Society, along with other local Nepali organizations, has submitted a letter of plea to WA senators to facilitate COVID-19 vaccine, medical equipment & supplies relief aid for Nepal. We, the residents of WA state, are fortunate enough to have medical resources and vaccines available to us. However, as we have come to know via media and first hand experience, the situation in Nepal is dire because of rampant rise in COVID-19 cases.

Time is of essence, money alone can’t solve the problem, and we need to mobilize local professionals and local leaders with basic equipment like oximeters, thermometer and oxygen concentrators. Local professionals like Biomedical Engineers can fix the non- functional oxygen plants and ventilators in the health care facilities. But international development partners including UN agencies who are working are not able to mobilize these local resources and are not able to procure those minor equipment and supplies on time simply because of their complex procurement policies.”

Voice of a local development professional from Nepal.

Per the World Health Organization, today, on May 11, the COVID-19 positivity rate in Nepal is 44% with reported new 9,483 cases and 250 deaths. Some heart-wrenching statistics:

• Nepal has the fastest infection rate in South Asia, faster than even India; the daily average rate of infection in the last 7 days is a staggering 30 per 100,000 people (compared to 28 in India) according to John Hopkins University
• More than 404,000 people in Nepal have tested positive, overwhelming the hospitals and health service system that are turning away critical patients
• Severe shortage of oxygen supply, resulting in increasing daily deaths
• 600 ventilators for the entire country, and the UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts that Nepal will need over 10,000 ventilators by May 24
• Less than 2,000 ICU beds for the entire country with a scarcity of beds for patients
• Only about 1% of the country has received vaccines against COVID-19 thus far

Hence, we collectively request our representatives to do their best to provide urgent aid to Nepal. The letter sent to our representatives can be found below:

The letters were sent to a total of 12 U.S. Congressmen, Congresswomen and Senators from Washington State

वाशिंगटन को स्वास्थ बिभागले जोनसन एंड जोनसनको खोप लगाउने रोक हटाएको जानकारी आएको छ। यो फैसला एफडिये (FDA), सीडीसी (CDC) र पास्छिम बैज्ञानिक सुरक्छ्या समिति (Western States Scientific Safety Review WorkGroup ), एवम वाशिंगटन स्वास्थ बिभाग मिलेर गरिएको हो।

यो एघार दिन को रोक छ जना बिरामीमा रगत जमेको अवस्था भेटिएको ले गर्दा राखिएको थियो। आज सुक्रबार सम्म मात्र पन्द्र वोटा एस्तो आवस्था भेटिएको छ। वाशिंगटन मा अहिले सम्म एस्तो घटना देखिएको छैन।अहिलेको तथ्यांक अनुसार एस्तो घटनाको सम्भावना धेरै नै कम छ। यदि तपाईले जोनसन एंड जोनसन को खोप लगाउनु भएको छ र तपाईलाइ टाउको दुख्ने , पेट दुख्ने , खुट्टा दुख्ने र सास फेर्न गारो भएको खण्ड मा नजिकै को स्वास्थ सेवामा सम्पर्क गर्नु होला।

अहिले सम्म ८० लाखमा मात्र १५ जनामा एस्तो समस्या देखिएको छ।

तसर्थ यदि तपाईले कोभीडको खोप लगाउनु भएको छैन भने छिटो भन्दा छिटो लगाऊन हामी आग्रह गर्दछौं।

एस बिसयमा अरु समाचारको लागि तल दिएको लिंकमा जानु होला।

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Newsroom/Articles/ID/2756/Washington-state-resumes-use-of-Johnson-Johnson-vaccin

धन्यबाद।