Rupandehi, 16 March 2021: A Health Camp was organized for the juveniles of Rupandehi Child Correction Home (CCH) on 5th and 6th March 2021 in Advocacy Forum’s initiation and coordination with Nepal Child Welfare Association, Siddarthanagar Municipality and Rotary Club of Central Lumbini. During AF’s monitoring visit to the Child Correction Home in Rupandehi on February 27, 2021, AF lawyers found that the children kept there needed immediate medical supports. Altogether 142 juveniles were benefitted from this health camp which was organized at CCH’s premises.
Physician Dr. Saddal Chaudhari, Dermatologist Dr. Ganesh Paudel and eye specialist Dr. Hira Bahadur Shah contributed on medical checkup and treatment for two days. Most of the juveniles were suffering from skin and eye related diseases. Altogether 91 juveniles were benefited by skin related treatment and 51 juveniles were benefited from eye related treatment. During the health camp, free medicines were provided to the children. According to the doctors, the children living in the conjusted space, lack of pure water fecility, poor ventilation and sun-light facility could be the reason of such types of mass disease. The doctors had recomended to provide at least one hour exposure to the Sun, pure water facility, proper sanitization, and sports and yoga activities on daily basis.
AF’s monitoring visits found that the juveniles were kept in orvercrowded dark and dirty rooms without proper ventilation, children never got chance to the Sun exposure, dirty water and poor sanitization, only two times meal were provided and no safety measures were applied for protection from COVID-19 infection.
