Even easily preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, malnutrition and acute respiratory infections accounts for 95% of all under-five mortality and morbidity.
Access to private medical care is expensive
and therefore restricted to a privileged minority.
There is no public health insurance
system.
Chhatrapati Free Clinic (CFC) has been in operation in Kathmandu since 1957 and it has tried to ease this critical condition by providing basic medical care for the poor and the unprivilaged.
A further aim is the overall improvement of medical diagnostics and therapy in Nepal.
