Rajpur, Dang
DAGMARA COMMUNITY HEALTH UNIT

Construction of a Health Post & Birthing Center

Place

Gangadi, Dagmara Checkpoint,
Ward-7,
Rajpur Rural Municipality,
District Dang

Who

Implementation: Chay Ya Nepal,
Rajpur Rural Municipality

Partners

Chay Ya Liechtenstein

When

2024 - 2025

For

ca. 28,350 inhabitants of Rajpur

Status

Completed and in operation

Project

Rajpur borders India to the south and Banke District to the west. The Rapti river forms the northern border of the municipality. A high percentage (45 %) of Dalit (the so-called untouchables) live here.

Although there already was a Community Health Unit in Dagmara, it was very small and didn’t have any rooms to admit inpatients. Therefore, severe cases couldn’t be treated here but had to be transported to the hospital in Tulsipur which is over 120 km (or about a 3 hour) drive away or they had to queue for hours at the border to be treated in the closer hospital in India. Similarly, there was nowhere for women to give birth in Rajpur.

Chay Ya thus decided to build four new rooms to solve this problem. The government has committed to covering 25 % of the total construction costs.