This is the reality in Nepal, people losing their life while searching for bed and Oxygen.

Nepal is going through a deadly second wave of COVID and many hundreds of thousands of people are suffering due to lack of proper hospital and health care support. As the pandemic takes an unprecedented toll in India with record deaths and infections, Nepal is also faced with severe threats of inadequate oxygen, hospital care, beds, PPE shortages and lack of proper infrastructure for mass treatment. Many schools have now been converted to temporary COVID treatment centre however, they lack PPE, medical resources, and other essential mediations.

Hospitals are unable to take new patient due to lack of beds and supply of Oxygen. In many hospitals, the incoming patients are waiting for their turn until the other patient either gets better and leave or die and free-up the bed to get the Oxygen concentrators. Many of them unfortunately die while waiting and their turn never comes.

Help for Nepal is seeking your help to raise funds to offer some relief to the hardest hit regions of Nepal. By partnering with Dr. Mahabir Pun (Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner 2007) and National Innovation Center (Not-for-profit organisation, Kathmandu), Help for Nepal intends to use the funds to:

- Produce and distribute PPE.

- Repair many out of order Oxygen plants in various hospital and provide life line support to 59 outstations in the country as per urgency.

- Reach the temporary COVID treatment centre in Chhattreshwori Rural Municipality at Bhotechaur Salyan, Karnali province in west Nepal and Orthopedic and Trauma Foundation Janakpur in east Nepal to provide immediate support for COVID treatment.

Your contributions, however small or big, could quite literally be the difference between someone's life and death. Here in the UK, we have been fortunate enough to be taken care of and reassured by the robustness of NHS, UK, but not everyone is so lucky. Your donations, and your care could be the saving grace for those that are not as fortunate as us in accessing required healthcare. Any help is tremendous help.