The metropolis has launched a campaign to provide door-to-door health screenings and services targeting senior citizens confined to their homes due to physical disabilities and chronic illnesses.
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Kathmandu Metropolitan City is planning to provide basic healthcare services to citizens over the age of 70 at their homes.
Under the program, the metropolis has started a health survey of senior citizens from today. After training, nursing staff who go door-to-door for basic services have been provided with health examination materials, medicines and various treatment tools including tablets for surveying, the metropolis has said.
Acting Chief Sunita Dangol said that the employees deployed in the service will not only perform official responsibilities but also perform humanitarian service work. 'Senior citizens who have no one, please behave in a way that makes them feel that there is someone for us, that we will get help when we need it,' she told the employees. 'If you do not have money to avert a disaster, if you do not have anyone to support you when you are in trouble, you may not get the behavior you think you want from senior citizens, consider it natural. Explain and explain to them, and work in a comfortable environment.'
The metropolis has said that the survey is being started with the aim of providing services at home, giving priority to senior citizens who do not have family members to support them even if they have property. Preparations are underway to send health workers to the homes of those who are unable to walk due to physical disabilities, chronic diseases, and cannot go to regular health institutions for health treatment. According to Deepak KC, Chief of the Health Department, regarding the objectives of the program, the services include medication management and nutritional counseling. Kalpana Shrestha, the focal person for the program, Hospital Nursing Inspector, said that they will coordinate with the ward office and women's health volunteers to create an environment where senior citizens can easily meet and talk to them as needed.
