India's Tata Trusts is planning to expand its rehabilitation and reconstruction operations in Nepal by constructing healthcare centres to treat quake victims.
Tata Trusts has a structured a two-phase programme for setting up healthcare facilities in the quake-hit Dolakha district.
"It plans to set up primary healthcare centres across the district for ease of access to medical facilities," said Arun Pandhi, Chief Development Manager of Tata Trusts.
"In the initial phase, the interventions will focus on restoring access to the pre-existing public healthcare infrastructure by constructing 21 pre-fabricated clinic units, installing solar power units for each of the clinics and utilising electronic stock tracking system, to manage governmental and external supplies in areas in Dolakha district," he added.
"The rehabilitation and reconstruction project will be rolled out once the locations are identified and the proposed project would be spread over three years," Pandhi said.
Tata Trusts in collaboration with Indian NGO Akshayapatra Foundation is already operating a centralised kitchen that is serving meals to 18,000 earthquake victims daily in Nepal.
The centralised vegetarian kitchen in Suryabinayak area of Bhaktapur has been in operation for over a month now in the worst-affected Bhaktapur district. The Tata Trusts is sponsoring the food for the project.
The kitchen that has been set up to serve meals at 17 locations in and around Bhaktapur was today visited by India's ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae, along with officials.
"The provision of thousands of meals every day to victims of the earthquake is a magnificent effort which has been made possible by a robust partnership between private sector, philanthropic organisations and the government," Rae said.
