http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/251 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:38:34 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/251/comment-page-1#comment-7 Prakash paudel, MBBS,Institute of medicine, Nepal Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:30:14 +0000 http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/251#comment-7 This is in response to the article "Countdown to MDG 4 & 5 but what about the other half?",April 11th 2008, which has scratched the role of international doner agency to reach the MDG.Obviously their roles cant be underestimated but what always wonders everywhere is " what they fund for".In fact every developing nations are facing typical health problems which demands vigourous and focused interventions.But it is seemed that the donors also have their own agenda who prefer to fund only in certain sectors.For example, in Nepal there are around 33,000 national and international non governmental organizations working for decades in health and development sectors.Their efficay and contributions can easily be painted against the measerable conditions in which every mother loses her life in every two minutes beause of pregnacy related comlications, more than 40,000 children die of Acute respiratory illness and still more than 30,000 kids lose their life in the absence of oral rehydration solution when suffered from diarrohea and dehydration. so it is very important that these donor agences should understand the problems by putting their foots in the local shoes and help decide the local bodies on where and how to best utilise the resoursces.They should change their role and act as wise and experienced guardians. This is in response to the article
“Countdown to MDG 4 & 5 but what about the other half?”,April 11th 2008, which has scratched the role of international doner agency to reach the MDG.Obviously their roles cant be underestimated but what always wonders everywhere is ” what they fund for”.In fact every developing nations are facing typical health problems which demands vigourous and focused interventions.But it is seemed that the donors also have their own agenda who prefer to fund only in certain sectors.For example, in Nepal there are around 33,000 national and international non governmental organizations working for decades in health and development sectors.Their efficay and contributions can easily be painted against the measerable conditions in which every mother loses her life in every two minutes beause of pregnacy related comlications, more than 40,000 children die of Acute respiratory illness and still more than 30,000 kids lose their life in the absence of oral rehydration solution when suffered from diarrohea and dehydration.
so it is very important that these donor agences should understand the problems by putting their foots in the local shoes and help decide the local bodies on where and how to best utilise the resoursces.They should change their role and act as wise and experienced guardians.

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