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Table 2 Forms of India’s DAH programs in Nepal

From: Development assistance for health given to Nepal by China and India: a comparative study

Forms

Name of project

Period

Funding

Output

Health facility building

Paropakar Maternal and Children Hospital

1959-1990s

NA

outpatient building, pathology laboratory, residents’ research center and ICU

Bir Hospital

1984-1985

NA

5-floor outpatient building and nuclear medical center

Emergency & trauma center

2003-2014

23 million USD

200-bedded and 8-floor building

BPKIHS

1993-1999

21 million USD

50 seat medical college and 350-bedded afflicted hospital

Teaching block in BPKIHS

2010-2013

1.2 million USD

4 large classrooms and 5 laboratories

clinics

1973-1975

2.3 million USD

12 clinics

Small development project

2003~

6 million USD

21 clinics and nursing campus in 17 zones

Dispatch faculty

BPKIHS

1994~

890,000 USD every year

211 health professionals in 20 years

Donation of equipment

Ambulance

1994~

NA

342 ambulances to 70 districts in Nepal during 1994-2012

Disease intervention

Goitre Control Programme

1973-1998; 2005-2007; 2011-2012

Around 14.4 million USD

Support the salt company for iodization, package, transportation, promotion, and building warehouse.

Cataract and Trachoma surgeries programme

2001~

5 million USD

financial support for 300-400 surgeries conducted by Nepal Eye Foundation every year

Scholarship

Colombo Plan, Golden Jubilee, Compex Nepal & Ayush Scholarship

1950s; 2002-, 2005-

202,000 USD every year recently

Scholarships for 50 MBBS in the Golden Jubilee Scholarship, 20 B. Pharma in the Compex Nepal scholar, 6 Ayush Scholarships and several others in the Colombo Plan or ITEC Scholarship