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The Eastern Regional Eye Care Programme (EREC-P) in South-East Nepal is a further development of Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital (SCEH), Lahan. In order to balance the work load of SCEH and to increase the scope for long-term human resource sustainability, Biratnagar Eye Hospital (BEH) was started in Biratnagar, Nepal’s second largest city 130 km east of Lahan, in September 2006. EREC-P continues the 40-years co-operation between Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS), the Social Welfare Council of Nepal and CBM. With the combination of the two eye hospitals SCEH and BEH along with its’ satellite clinics EREC-P is a high volume treatment programme, which provides high quality comprehensive eye services at a cost affordable to the population in eastern Nepal and northern India.
6-months and 1-year courses on Primary Eye Health are provided to Auxiliary Health Workers (AHW) and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs).
3-years training course to AHW and ANM. This is a certified training with final exam and skill certificate by CTEVT Kathmandu.
In addition, short-term trainings are provided to health assistant students, staff nurse students, CBR workers, health-posts in-charge, female community health volunteers, traditional healers and drug retailers.
Five-year-old Nirmal lives in a village about 40 km from Biratnagar, a major city in eastern Nepal. Nirmal’s father Shrawan (34) works as a daily wage labourer in a factory in Biratnagar...
