The Inclusive Health Care by Pema Dolma and Yungdung
It is only few months before when Dr. Govinda KC ended his fast onto hunger strike. His demands were also made evident when Dr. KC revealed his intention to make the region such as Dolpo accessible to the state’s health services when he also chose Phurwa Dolpo to end his sixth hunger strike. For this piece, we will try to examine what could be challenges and what could be the way to properly safeguard the lives of peoples living in remote region, such as Dolpo. This article will refer to our long years of living and working experiences in the remote region, both as locals and as nurses. We argue that the understanding of locals’ lives and knowledge such as that of Dolpo for effective delivery of basic health services is important to sustain the policies and institutions and activities of the government. The high-level committee formed on Nov 17, 2004 and headed by Kedar Bhakta Mathema also asked the government to relocate the institutions that have already built infrastruct