INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BAJURA, APRIL 20The establishment of a onedoor crisis management centre at District
Hospital, Bajura, has been a great relief to victims of gender violence.According to psycho-social volunteer Santoshi Thapa, the one-door
crisis management centre at the hospital was set up more than three years ago to provide health and psycho-social counselling to the victims
and also with a view to minimising gender violence.
"Badimalika Municipality and UNFP are also assisting the centre," Thapa
said.As per data with the hospital, the crisis management centre has provided relief and rehabilitated over 350 gender violence victims and
affected persons thus far.Just into this fiscal so far, 84 persons have received counselling service from the centre.Of them, 10 are males,
hospital sources said.District Hospital Bajura Chief Dr Prakash Raj Joshi said the one-door crisis management centre at the hospital had
been providing a number of services to the victims, including health treatment, tests, mental and psychological counselling, security,
refuge, legal remedy and rehabilitation.UNFPA Bajura Programme Coordinator Atmaram Neupane shared that the centre was established in line
with the national procedure against gender violence of 2010 and national strategy and procedure to end gender violence and to ensure gender
empowerment of the year 2013.Further UNFPA has revealed it is working to empower 12 such one-door crisis management centres in four
provinces in the country with the support of all three tiers of the government and various other international partners.A version of this
article appears in the print on April 21, 2022, of The Himalayan Times
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