An engineer from Kathmandu, assesses land and costs for building a Health and Birthing Centre at Preeti.
 
The government recognising the need for health facilities in the remote areas, have agreed to give a percentage of the building costs.
​This is a National health initiative and the government has produced comprehensive plans for the construction which include a laboratory, a birthing centre and a flat above to accommodate trained staff who will be required to relocate from Kathmandu.
TNT engaged in lengthy discussions with villagers, as well as community development officials, listening to their plans for the future, when they hope they might have medical facilities to reduce the hardship, suffering and needless loss of life, they currently experience.

areRequests for help from the Development Committee at Preeti, led to TNT and SITARA making the journey to Preeti in the mountainous Ramechap district to see for themselves the extent of the problem. They found an area where 30,000 people live, where all access tracks and roads are blocked by snow or landslides making them impassable for up to 8 months a year, and where there is no medical facility and no Birthing centre. Lengthy talks with villagers and local government officials revealed that the hope is for a Primary Health Centre to be built on land villagers are prepared to donate. The need for medical facilities is without question. Much assessment work and proposals now to be done - watch this space!