International Aid
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- Created on: 07-06-16 10:33
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- International Aid
- Nepal is a poor Himalayan Country
- A third of its population lives in poverty
- I woman died every 2 hours during childbirth and pregnancy
- Infant mortality was high
- People had to pay for Healthcare so few visited doctors
- £65 Million has been provided by the UK Government to be spent on Nepals Healthcare facilities
- The money was spent on:
- Safe Motherhood Programme
- Training for new doctors, midwives and nurses
- Improving healthcare facilities
- Increasing the number of qualified healthcare workers
- Every Nepalese has access to free healthcare
- In the last 10 years, 10% more births have been attended to by professionals
- Maternal mortality has fallen by 50% and infant mortality by 30%
- Nepal is on target to meet Millennium Development Goals for healthcare by 2015
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