Community health camp

Hands-on support for children and families away from a crowded outpatient corridor — with clear limits on what a camp can and cannot do.

What a camp can offer

Community health camps organised with NHS can give families time to ask questions that rarely fit a five-minute clinic slot: dental planning, school letters, physiotherapy after an old bleed, and how registration works.

Camps can also introduce families to each other. Many parents say the first useful conversation happened standing in a queue, not reading a leaflet.

What a camp cannot replace

A camp is not an emergency service. It does not replace a factor assay, an inhibitor test, or an infusion at a treatment centre. If a child has a head injury or a hot swollen joint during a camp, go to emergency care immediately.

Do not start or change treatment because someone at a camp suggested a product name. Only your treatment centre prescribes and supplies clotting factor.

How to request a camp in your district

Email nepalhemo@gmail.com with a proposed venue, a local hospital contact, and how many families you already know in the area. Early planning helps NHS coordinate clinicians and volunteers.

District chapters in Bhaktapur, Chitwan, Parsa, Sunsari, Kaski, and contacts elsewhere can help mobilise families. The national office links you to the nearest volunteer even if your district is not on that list.

After the camp

Follow up with the hospital named at the camp for clinical files and assay results. Complete NHS registration if you have not already.

Send the office one sentence about what still failed locally — no assay, no factor, no physiotherapist — so the next advocacy meeting has district evidence.

This page is general information from Nepal Hemophilia Society. It is not a diagnosis or a treatment plan. A bleed, a head injury, or bleeding after an accident needs urgent hospital care. Ask your treatment centre before you change any treatment.