Category: Covid19

• Following a recent government decision to re-open public spaces, NYF suspends isolation center services to fully resume our regular NRH programming. Since its opening, we’ve admitted and treated more than 240 COVID-positive patients at our facilities.
• We are continuing to produce Lito, our homemade “super” flour, at the NRH and are still distributing them to communities in need via the Lito for Life program.

• Authorities in Nepal allow district officials to decide whether to reopen schools and other public spaces.
• After almost a year and a half of being in lockdown, children at Olgapuri Children’s Village are looking forward going back to school soon.

The 50-bed capacity isolation center has been able to provide life-saving services to over 205 patients who were unable to isolate themselves at home.

• Essential food outlets are only open for a couple of hours each morning, with the remaining businesses completely closed down to slow the spread. Transportation, both public and private, is halted. Only vehicles for essential services are allowed in the street.
• Read an update from President Som Paneru about the extended lockdown.

• After a few weeks of operation, NYF’s COVID Isolation Center adds four “High-Dependency Units” or HDUs. Patients in need of hospital intervention will be moved to this area and held here, under stabilizing, high-level care and using special equipment, until NYF is certain a hospital ICU bed has been found for them.
• See pictures of NYF’s High-Dependency Units.

• President Som Paneru appears on BBC World News  live from Kathmandu to describe the crisis– and the urgent needs in his country.
• Watch the interview here

• NYF’s stock of already-prepared and packaged Lito continues to be distributed, along with other staples like rice and potatoes.
• Team members make deliveries to orphanages, children’s hospitals, long-term care facilities, food banks, and other locations where individuals can access this critical resource.

You can listen to the 2-minute interview here. For a full transcription, visit our blog post about it here.

• Nepal Youth Foundation opened our first COVID Isolation Center in our Kathmandu Nutritional Rehabilitation Home on Tuesday, May 4th, and it is already full, mostly with people under the age of 18.
• Isolation centers provide safe care for individuals who have been infected with COVID-19 and must be isolated from their families, but who are not sick enough to be hospitalized.
• Read more about NYF’s COVID isolation center.