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Nepal’s COVID-19 crisis swells as global aid funding slows
['Irwin Loy']
IRIN - Nepal
BANGKOKWhile the coronavirus surge in India has dominated global attention, a parallel crisis has been unfolding largely in the shadows in neighbouring Nepal, pushing a beleaguered health system to the brink.
“The health system has collapsed.”Humanitarian groups say donor funds are stretched, partly due to the overwhelming needs in India.
“We are faced with a real possibility of fragile health systems collapsing.”Nepal has called for international aid, and is urging aid groups to divert their resources from other programming.
“Globally, the aid is shrinking.”Instead, many groups are shifting existing funding around: revising ongoing projects and moving already committed money towards emergency health responses.
Human Rights Watch said both the government and aid groups were slow to prepare for what should have been seen as an inevitable second wave.
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