Effects of COVID-19 during lockdown in Nepal
Abstract
Nepal started its full lockdown on March 24, 2020 and has been extended until
14 June 2020 as a precaution for prevention of COVID-19 infection. which has been criticised by many as not all the deaths are caused by
COVID-19. Many women are facing
barriers to access maternity health care during the lockdown period and there has
been rise in ssuicide rates. As the lockdown began in Nepal, all the school and
colleges were suspended, and children were forced to spend their time indoors and
exams has been postponed leaving the students stressed about the uncertainty
of their future. Social distancing, isolation and quarantine at home can result in
isolated in an abusive home where there could be even more increase in abuse
during such crisis. Millions of babies are missing the routine vaccinations . There are other impacts related to health such
as serious impacts on logistics and supply management including shortage of
medicine and food supply; and impacts on farming including both production and
sale. Nepal took several precautionary measures as a response towards COVID-19
such as First, limiting international air travel, sealing the land border-crossings
with India and introduction of social distancing measures.There is a need for the country to ease
its lockdown. Social distancing, hygiene, lifestyle factors and
PPE measures need to continue for long term, whilst we need to keep working on
the big public health issues such as poverty reduction, improving access to health
service to achieve universal health coverage.
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