This project is to have the Environmental Impact Assessment done and approved by the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal.

The availability of high-quality paediatric health care in Nepal is limited. There is only one government tertiary level hospital for children in the country and only about 475 total beds exist to serve roughly 12 million children, falling far from the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendation of 5 beds per 1,000 people. Furthermore, the facilities available do not offer the complete range of paediatric specialty services. These existing facilities are also concentrated in the Kathmandu Valley and operate primarily on their own with little collaboration between other facilities or health posts across the country. There is a substantial shortage of qualified healthcare professionals, and majority of paediatricians that do exist reside in urban areas. Despite higher salary incentives, the Government of Nepal has difficulty retaining physicians in remote, rural areas of Nepal. Lack of access to quality specialty care leads to premature deaths, increase in morbidity which in many cases progresses to chronic diseases, or disabilities due to untreated infections. A chronically sick child cannot go to school, pursue a fulfilling career, and results in a negative poverty cycle which is very hard to break. These are just examples of the impact on the child alone when care is not available, the impact on families and society as a whole must also be considered. Families experience their own hardships and a loss of wages because of the time spent taking care of their child.

KIOCH aims to fill this gap by establishing a Multi-specialty Children Hospital at Kathmandu and other six provinces of the country.

As part of the project we need to do an Environmental Impact Assessment as the mandatory provision of the government to establish a hospital that has 100 or more beds.