Asha Mobile Clinic

This mobile clinic is about 20 kilometres from Pokhara, due east towards Kathmandu. The community it serves is a collection of people from different areas, who due to natural disasters like landslides or problems from the political disturbances in Nepal are staying here.The land itself is in a small canyon on the banks of a river that it threatens their houses each monsoon season.
The population earns their livelihood by digging sand and stone from the river banks to be used for building construction. The entire family members are engaged in this type of work, and small children can often be seen wielding large shovels full of sand.
Due to their poverty, and also remote location, they have had no access to health care, and thus on January the 13th 2003, Asha Clinic started its second mobile clinic by holding a medical camp for the local population.
The mobile clinic visits them once a week, and provide medicine on site, more serious cases are taken back to Pokhara Day Clinic in the ambulance, or called in later to be taken to a local hospital (accompanied by our staff). The medics focus on the health of the children, though, also provide health support for the parents as well.


Introduction
"There are over 42 slum areas in and around Pokhara, where landless people live in tents and huts on 'squat' government land. Living conditions in these shanty towns are horrendous, clean water is scarce, as a result hygiene is of a very low standard and diseases are plentiful"		We have reduced our visit to Krantitole to once a month as the community there are significantly "healthier" now and knows about our facilities at Asha clinic. At the same time we have now started our third mobile clinic at Nursary chowk slum area.