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b. run door to door educational programmes about environmental sanitation
c. treat cuts and minor injuries
d. provide basic health services

e. run health programmes for adult females, female health worker, mid-wife and non-
governmental organizations

h. Community and Ward Level
With the objective of making the basic health services easily accessible to the villagers,
every ward in the village is provided with a village clinic or immunization clinic. Similarly,
there is the provision of at least one female health worker (volunteer) in each ward. These
volunteers provide health services related to family planning, treatment and prevention
of diarrhoea, respiratory diseases, health education, etc.

Voluntary Health Agencies

Besides the government and private hospitals and health centres, different voluntary
health agencies are also working to solve the existing health problems of the society. These
organizations take health programmes as the major programmes. They may be working
with the joint union of some international agencies. Some voluntary health agencies are
introduced below.

A. Nepal Red Cross Society
Nepal Red Cross Society was established on 19 Bhadra 2020
th
B.S. introducing with the slogan “Where there is sorrow, there is
Red Cross.” It was established after about hundred years of the
establishment of International Red Cross Society (1863 A.D). The
International Red Cross Society was established with the aim of
giving medical treatment to the wounded soldiers in the war. Fig: 13
The main aim of Nepal Red Cross Society is to give relief to
the people during flood, earthquake, epidemic, famine, fire and other disasters. It also
provides maternal and child welfare services. The services provided by Nepal Red Cross
Society are listed below.

a. Service Oriented Activities
The service oriented activities of Nepal Red Cross Society are related with nature and
its conservation. It works to prevent, control and minimize natural disasters, rescue the
people from disasters like flood, landslide, epidemics, famine, fire, etc. It rescues the
people and help in rehabilitation of victims. It also helps the refugees.

b. Health Services
Health services of Nepal Red Cross Society are related with community health to conduct
blood donation, ambulance services, reproductive health, family planning, eye camps,
medicine distribution, etc. It has also established blood bank centres.
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