Dr Catharina Boehme, Officer-in-Charge WHO South-East Asia, today felicitated Nepal for eliminating rubella as a public health problem and the country’s Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) programme, the winners of WHO South-East Asia Region’s Public Health Champions Award.
At an event this morning in Kathmandu, Dr Boehme handed over a plaque to Dr. Sudha Sharma Gautam, Minister of Health and Population Nepal, in recognition of the country’s remarkable achievement of eliminating Rubella, a highly contagious viral infection.
Along with the Minster, Dr Boehme felicitated the FCHVs, winners of WHO South-East Asia’s newly instituted Public Health Champions Awards. The FCHVs programme have been awarded for their transformative role in improving maternal and child health, increasing immunization coverage, promoting nutrition, and managing disease outbreaks, even in Nepal’s most geographically and socially challenged regions.
The Champion award were announced in September. At an official award ceremony held in Colombo during the regional governing body meeting in October, the award was received on behalf of the FCHVs by the Member State representative.
