KATHMANDU: The Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) has worked out special strategies to provide assistance that includes the management of spaces to quarantine people at risk of COVID-19.
The Red Cross staffers would be mobilized to purchase necessary materials, taking stock of people’s health, supporting people to keep in touch with their families, providing psychological advice and assistance to people including prisoners, it said.
A team of people has been trained and made ready to provide assistance to the hospitals that have been treating infected people and search for those who have come in contact with the infected ones, according to the Director of Health Service Department, NRCS, Bipul Neupane.
The respective bodies of the Red Cross have been instructed to follow its norms and values and focus on mistreatment, child protection, gender and sexual violence during responsive measures.
Volunteers and Red Cross staffers have been mobilized at its offices in all 77 districts, according to Neupane.
An action plan and procedure have been formulated in this regard through coordination among the Government of Nepal, International Federation of Red Cross and United Nations, NRCS executive director Umesh Dhakal said.
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