Nand Lal Banstola
Currently working with NLR Nepal with the status of Deputy Director - Technical; Working experiences of more than 20 years in health and disability; Major expertise on Disability Inclusive Development
Location Biratnagar, Province 1, Nepal
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Many thanks to all;
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This was really great, I learnt a lot and fully enjoyed the course; thanks for facilitators and other friends;
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The latest concept, I think, is DID is replacing CBID; so there are little bit upgraded hypothesis or principles on this regard
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The biggest worry in such conditions is who will take care after the death of care takers or parents?
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The wider needs of individual with disabilities can be summarize as: empowerment of individual & families (may be treatment, counseling, devices, access to provision & services an son but see the possibilities not the disability and then identify the barriers to overcome for such possibilities); community awareness aiming to changing the attitude of the...
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Concerning the rehabilitation in humanitarian settings; situation is far better than before. Common barriers in general are still existing but people started to think of disabilities during disaster. After the devastating earthquake 2015 in Nepal; many rehabilitation opportunities have been established in a inclusive manner such covering the needs of persons...
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Task shifting together with mHealth can give the better result; otherwise there is still risks of quality rehabilitation services. I have seen some of the surgical cases by surgeon with less experiences has given negative results
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Our country condition is almost the same; specially in those rural areas!
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In Nepal assistive technology and products are available only in the big cities but it can not cover the demand of all the people in need. In the rural areas no such technology & products are available so that people have to face many challenges;
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Very clear information; clear distinguishes between health services and rehabilitation. The striking point is communicable diseases are decreasing but non communicable are increasing ... also the number of elderly people or senior citizen increasing and so on..
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In our setup in Nepal the following are the major barriers:
Accessibility: even good policy provisions are there but due to improper steps taken for implementation local health settings are rarely user friendly; in some cases ramps are constructed but due to lacking of technical knowledge & idea they are useless;
Communication: health professional do not... -
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One innovative component I found here is: under the project "School renovation" teachers are trained on screening visual & hearing impairments - it would be better to know the results of this; I mean is this approach really effective or cost effective?
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Yes this is correct that without political will it is very difficult to change, this is applicable not only for disabilities but for all holistic development agendas; here now the question of attitudinal barriers is relevant - such as if strong policy provisions existing & sensitization to political cadres on disability as cross cutting agenda of holistic...
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very clear examples to overcome the existing barriers and then ensuring universal design principles that are achieved. Disabilities friendly is not only for the persons with disabilities but friendly for all such as elderly people, children, pregnant women and so on. Whatever are the policy provisions on this but implementation is the major problem everywhere;
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If the Government policies clearly incorporate PHC concept of 1978 or human rights issues to address health for all and properly implement UNCRPD; these individual issues will certainly overcome. Free health services at least for vulnerable groups, concept of well equipped outreach clinics and then community mappings with specific needs of individuals can be...
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In many places health professionals think that disability itself is the sickness but interesting is that even they do not know how to treat this! so that this is really very much essential to include disability in curriculum @HannahKuper
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Previous week 1 & week 2 are really encouraging; I am curious to entertain this week on the same manner!
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The spirals are highly useful and I am thinking to apply these in our DID work in Nepal. I have expected to share some of the case studies afterwards;
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I have encountered with several children having the clear link with Malnutrition & disabilities. This generally happens with birth related disabilities as due to stigma the children & mother have to face many problems; the children is not properly cared and not provided with the balanced diet causing the condition further worsening.
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This is interesting to know detail on trachoma; but not only trachoma but there are several others among NTDs that are major causes of disabilities due to disease. Till now out 18 NTDs identifies so far from WHO, leprosy is the one as major causes leading to disabilities. In leprosy endemic countries such as India, Indonesia, Brazil, Nepal & so on; we can find...
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Projects related to HIV and disabilities in Cambodia are very interesting; these could be the best examples to demonstrate other HIV programs to incorporate disabilities and also putting focus on it.
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This is really a good video that clearly explains the health service situation of many country setups; Attention is not yet paid to achieve health for all that has resulted certain groups of people out of required health services;
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This is fact that very low resources including HR is allocated for mental health; another problem in low income countries is skillful Human Resources; another big issues in mental health is stigma and recriminations against people affected;
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SRHR is one of the area where people feel less important but it is not really true; if we go through different Government or other programs, this topics is rarely included; there is clearly a big gap between SRHR & disabilities;
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Even if the WASH facilities are existing, they are not user friendly or disabilities friendly; so that access is the main problem for persons with disabilities. I have found many drop outs from the schools due to the toilet & drinking water problems. in many schools of rural communities, girls do not go to school during their monthly cycles! now, we can think...
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Yes violence will be impact both but chance is higher in case of disabilities; another most important condition is that rarely action is taken against violence with disabilities and the majority vulnerable groups are female with disabilities;
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Leprosy is one of the major causes of physical disability; in the leprosy endemic countries there are quite lot of persons with disability due to leprosy
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Early diagnosis of disabilities together with proper management is the biggest problem everywhere.
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It would be great if health services appropriately identify the social wellbeing needs of persons with disabilities; but there are rare example for this; mostly in the developing & under developed countries this is not yet felt. so that my answer for both the questions is "No" or "Not yet";
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Health and well being: Causes & consequences of "Physical, Mental and Social"; that further puts impact on relationships such as with family or wife, children etc; really interesting ..
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I will certainly enjoy this interesting week 2 similar to previous week, thanks for clear introduction of this week to our facilitators
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The modified WGQ that is in recent years tested or validated in Indonesia is also available. This is because WGQ can not cover some types of disabilities so that some questions needed to be added;
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This is really one of the impressive video that clearly defines disability; Real insight I got of the ICF framework than before
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Some one in pain might be the health condition but may not be the disability. this is off course the problem for individual and needed to be addressed separately but due to this conditions if certain barriers existed to participate fully in the community then this may fall under the category of disablity@HannahKuper
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For me - disability is simply the diversity and this is also the cross cutting issues of mainstream development. Impairment and disability are the different things, if we go with UNICEF mathematical formula of "Impairment X Barrier = Disability", it is obviously clear that whatever might be the impairment if there is "0" barrier, there is no disability. I have...
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Opportunities in this sense: since it is timely diagnosed or identified there are still many possibilities to prevent further severities due to CP; there are possibilities of rehabilitation plan, environmental adaptations and more than that getting family support. Challenges in this sense: if not properly cared & treated severity may gradually increasing;...
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The overarching principle of 2030 Agenda is: "Leave No One Behind"; This means to ensure its success, the Agenda must remain of the people, by the people and for the people, committing the world to global action for the next 15 years. This echoes disability movement’s own principle: Nothing About Us Without Us
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as per my study and observation, Persons with disabilities are referenced directly
11 times in the 2030 Agenda: 13 Goals of SDG have a direct impact on the lives of persons with disabilities; whereas in SDG: 7 explicit references to persons with disabilities; 18 references to ‘vulnerable populations’;Hopefully Facilitators can correct me ...
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Among these three; case study 2 - a CP child is matter of great concern with opportunities and challenges both,
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One powerful statement in this session could be that "This world in not constructed for persons with disabilities"; could be one very strong point to advocate with authorities of "the agenda 2030"; could be one of the big challenge to the transformational shift of SDG with the principle "No one leave behind"
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I have never brainstormed like that, such as 1 disability but 99 not ..
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I still need to go through the world report but 19.2% of total female or out of disability similarly 12% of those total male or out of total disability figure is not clearly understood. Please let us know if some of you have gone through the report
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Nand Lal Banstola replied to Evan Cowo
Hey, @SamridhiRana; we will enjoy this course together
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Nand Lal Banstola replied to Pushp Raj Sharma
Great to know you ..
