Health Care & Insurance

Health Care

Basic health care has been improved through infrastructure, extra human resources, 24 hours service, medical equipment, medicines, lab services.

6000 households (35.000 people) have access to improved basic health care.

Number of patients to the Heath Posts has been duplicated.

350 patients have been referred to a hospital for specialized care and the costs have been covered by the community based health insurance system (without any financial support from Karuna Foundation).

Mother and child health indicators have increased with 5%.

Community based health insurance

2225 households (12.500 people) are member of the community based health Insurance system and financially protected against costs. This is more then 30% of the Total population of Karuna’s project area.

Every village manages its own health insurance scheme. In all the villages there is a balance between yearly income and expenditure.

In the First two years on average 30-50% of the total income comes from local resources. The other 50% is from Karuna Foundation.

At present, 70% of the Share&Care villages are continuing independently after the exit of Karuna Foundation Nepal.

Karuna Foundation Nepal is one of the key players to push the agenda of Health Insurance in Nepal; health insurance is one of the developing issues of Ministry of Health .