Nepal Red Cross Society #61 4/26/2020 NRCS Situation Report : ‘’COVID-19’’ Prevention and Response As of 25th April 2020, the global death is 187705 (5767 new deaths) with 2719897 (93716 new cases) being infected and more than 800,000 recovered from COVID-19 pandemic. The ongoing pandemic of Corona virus disease-COVID 2019 has been reported in 185 countries. It has lead to Nepal (Source): sitrep#76 severe global socioeconomic disruption, the https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19KyYDfZ3KHoJfWWp2eOaQkrvDIbfhss- postponement /cancellation of cultural, sporting Total samples tested: 9666 and religious events. Tested negative: 9617 The Ministry of Health and Populations is leading the response with the support of WHO,UNICEF Tested positive: 49 and many other organizations. Nepal Red Cross Society(NRCS) is also the part of it, supporting Result yet to come 77 national and local authorities. NRCS emergency Recovered 10 operation Centre (EOC) was activated on 6th of Deaths: 0 February 2020 and 60 SITREPS released with the Total no. of people in 14731 activities held in 77 District chapters of Red Cross. quarantine With the well coordination and the resources available NRCS is responding to this pandemic by 87 distributing the Personal Protective equipments, Total no of people in isolation supporting to quarantine management, non food items distribution, installation of handwashing points at different places, generating awareness through different channels, orienting the volunteers and ambulance drivers on infection control , distributing the food rations to the must vulnerable households, helping to restore the contact with a family member at quarantine of different districts. Key highlight: Psychological First Aid (PFA Service) Increasing cases of COVID 19 has created concern and worry among the general population worldwide. People who are diredtly or indirectly afftected may be in greater panic and fear. Psychological First Aid is a method of helping people in distress so they feel calm and supported to cope better with the current situation. Nepal Red Cross Society is serving the people with Psychological First Aid through the phone calls and social media. As of 26th April 2020, 274 people have been benefited with the service. Recent tools developed and implemented COVID-19 response guideline: Infection, prevention and control (IPC) guideline Rapid Guidance for providing Restoring Family Link Service (RFL) during the COVID-19 Social Media Reach and Volunteering Psychological First Aid(PFA) Nepal Red Cross Society Response : Health and Care Activity New(4/26/2020 Cumulative achievement # of personal protective equipment (masks, gloves, 500 224433 hazmat suit) distributed # of community members receiving PFA 4 274 # of ambulance services at districts 242 # of ambulance drivers oriented on Infection 148 ,Prevention and Control(IPC) guideline # of people reached through COVID-19 awareness 150 162826 sessions(Community orientation, school orientation, door to door visit, help desk, micing) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene # of hygiene kits distributed 345 # of people reached with hygiene promotion 150 5911 activities (hand washing demonstration and practical sessions) # hand washing stations 5 155 # of soaps distributed 350 11481 # of buckets with jug distributed 200 2135 Shelter NFI supported at quarantine( Tarpaulin, tent, blanket, kitchen set,mosquito net etc) # of Tent 5 318 # of tarpaulin 55 971 # of blanket 200 6053 # of mosquito net 35 2132 # of mattress 1543 # of bed sheet 426 Risk Communication and Community Engagement and Accountaility # of Information, Education and Communication(IEC) 561651 materials produced and distributed (pamphlets, flex, stickers, flyers, brochures, banners, etc.) # of responded calls in NRCS hotline(1130) 12 337 # of COVID 19 specific episodes of radio programs 126 Protection, Gender and Inclusion # of staff/volunteer oriented on PGI during COVID 22 Response National Society Development # of NRCS volunteers mobilized during COVID 19 20 1023 Response # of guideline developed to Response COVID 19 4 Note: Table shows the directly reached people, indirectly reached is more Districts updates 4/26/2020 Dang Attending regular DDMC meetings. Supported 4 buckets and 100 soaps to Quarantine area. People returning home from Quarantine after being tested negative. Pyuthan 200 blankets, 75 tarpaulins and 100 buckets given to Quarantine. 24 blankets given in health desk. Planning to manage isolation ward in Pyuthan district by collecting funds from all wards. Collected 1 lakh from all municipalities as a budget for disaster management and RedCross given the responsibility to manage and properly handle it. Needs: All quarantine areas demanding for blankets. Rolpa More than 5000 people have returned from different brick factories from Kathmandu and all of them are kept in quarantine. All the schools of the district are turned into quarantine. Planning in coordination with district is going on to make a SWAB collection cabin. Few PPE, 60 blankets, 100+ soaps, 200+Tarpaulins, 150 meters P-form, 100+ masks given to Quarantine. Large number of blankets are on demand. Dailekh 1 tent given to Dailekh district jail to establish Quarantine in Jail premises along with 4 buckets and 44 soaps for 147 prisoners and their 5 children. Parsa 15 households affected by wind visited and relief packages given to the affected families. 4 Tarpaulins given to Nepal Army to build a space for SWAB collection and testing. Kanchanpur Jingles being broadcasted from different FMs. Miking about COVID-19 response in subchapter coverage area. Ambulance service continued. PPE provided to ambulance drivers and frontline workers. 205 blankets, 5 sets of utensils, 40 steel plates, 4 tarpaulins and 4 buckets given in different quarantine areas. Orientation to ambulance drivers. 22000 cash supported by Bedkot SC, 30000 by Punarwash SC and 30000 by Mahakali SC to their respective municipalities to provide relief food to needy people. Attending regular meetings. 200 liters water tank along with 6 soaps a jug and a flex print given toBhimdutt Municipality ward 4 and Krishnapur municipality. Awareness activities continued throughout the district. Lalitpur President of NRCS Lalitpur chapter had participated the meeting of Quarantine Management Sub- committee organized by Lalitpur Metro. UmeshTamang from street vendor have been supporting ward office on selecting beneficiaries, collecting application form from vulnerable group for relief distribution and also engaged actively to distribute food items and he himself has distributed five kg of rice to a family of daily wage labour. PSA about COVID – 19 is being broadcasting through local FM for 14 times a day . Two champions from unemployed youth and five from street vendor are demonstrating hand washing in their neighbors and reached 42 people. Two champions from unemployed youth and three from street vendor taught to 12 people about appropriate use of mask and sanitizer. Street vendor Sita Karki distributed one litre of sanitizer to six people and unemployed youth ShrstiTamang is supporting ward office for relief distribution. Sub chapters of NRCS in Thaiba, Imadol, Lubhu has supported ward offices for the distribution of relief items in each wards. Emergency Blood donation program are being organised by different subchapters, among them Lamatar, Jharuwarasi, and Subchapter in ward no. 19 has collected 138, 65 and 39 pint blood respectively in coordination with ward offices. Kaski Six champions ( TanujaThapa, Bhima Devi B.K, Laxmi B.K, Shova B.K, in pokhara 14 and Deepak Pariyar, SamjanaPariyar in pokhara 15 ) and six NRCS subchapters in ward no. 1, 10, 14, 15, 19 and 25 of Pokhara Metro (president Ram Prasad Adhakari, Samar Bahadur Shrestha, Mathura prasad poudel, Kamal Prasad Poudel, Bharat Raj Acharya, Rama Tripathi) are the members of Covid Prevention Group at ward level and engaged to support local government regularly. Similarly, in Madi, Annapurna, Rupa and Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality NRCS subchapters are representing various roles like member of command post and member of CPG. SURE steering committee member/ vice president of NRCS kaskimr. Krishna Timilshina is a member of Quarantine Management sub-committee of Kaski and presenting active role of NRCS there. 10 sets of blanket, two sets of family tent has been supported to Pokhara 9 subchapter for Street Children Care Center by Kaski Chapter. Pokhara nine subchapter has provided residential camp including ready to eat food for 26 daily wage labourer from other districts (Baglung, Parbat, Myagdi) in Nabaprabhat secondary school pokhara nine. One set of NFRI with food item has been supported to Ms. MalatiRajpal (daily labour) at Pokhara nine by NRCS Kaski Chapter. 24 hours ambulance service is always in standby position for emergency services and to fight against Covid-19. During the lockdown period 65 patients has received ambulance services from NRCS Kaski. NRCS kaski is in the lead role for operation, mobilization and management of ambulance services at Gandaki province as well as in Kaski district during this pandemic outbreak. President of Kaski chapter is defacto member and regularly invited and attending the district level Corona Crisis Management Committee (CCMC) meeting every day at 4:00 PM in District Administration Office. Red Cross Kaski has conducted door to door emergency mobile blood donation campaign and had collected 110 pint blood through three blood donation programme this week.