Health team and Rotary participants at the Hetauda heart-screening camp

RHD screening in Hetauda

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Activity date: 4–6 July 2024 · Hetauda

From 4–6 July 2024, the Rotary Club of Patan conducted rheumatic heart disease screening in Hetauda as part of its Global Grant work. The submitted activity report records 2,500 screenings, 250 echocardiograms and 22 positive cases identified.

The programme focused on schoolchildren, combining screening with awareness and access to further care. The club’s report records treatment for the positive cases. The activity formed part of the wider effort toward eliminating rheumatic heart disease in Nepal by 2030.

No separate event budget was specified in the submission; the work formed part of the Global Grant project.

Source: Rotary Club of Patan report submitted to GML.

Volunteers carrying out the joint tree plantation on the Bungamati hillside

Joint tree plantation in Bungamati, 2023

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Activity date: 26 August 2023 · Bungamati, Lalitpur

The Rotary Club of Patan and Rotary Club of Himalayan Patan organised a joint plantation programme at Bungamati with Ward No. 22 and community partners. More than 90 people participated, and 200 trees, fruit plants and soil-stabilising plants were planted, according to the club’s activity report.

Rtn. Khadak Singh Bisht, RCP Vice-President and Environment Committee Chair, helped lead the initiative. Support included Women for Women, the Rotaract clubs of Patan and Himalayan Patan, and the local yoga centre.

The programme was presented as a pilot for wider collaboration on environmental projects. The club invited support from other Rotary clubs and members for a sustainable, collaborative approach to future environmental work.

Source: Rotary Club of Patan activity report submitted to GML in September 2023.