In Nepal many people who are infected with COVID-19 are unable to self-isolate, often due to the need to share small rooms, and this issue is worse for those with a disability.
Working with the local health authorities and local partners we have established a 110 bed disability-friendly isolation facility for those infected but not critically ill, in order to break the chain of infection while the country prepares.

May 7th – agreement reached between Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC), Sundar Dhoka Saathi Sewa and Jyapu Samaj to run the COVID Isolation Center.

May 9th- Preparing the isolation centre for its first patients

May 10th- Patients begin to arrive

May 13th – Food being prepared for those in isolation to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission

May 21st- first patients are discharged healthy and well

Our work continues across South Asia, maintaining this facility to stop COVID-19 transmission, providing PPE and food for those in need in India, and through a new initiative to airlift 15 tonnes of medical supplies to 22 hospitals that are under great pressure in Nepal.