KATHMANDU: A group of Nepali youth organised a health camp in Ranku, one of the remote villages in Kalikot district, where people are suffering from severe malnutrition and other health problems.

Mission Better Nepal (MBN), a voluntary movement of Nepali youth, provided medicines, food commodities and clothes to the villagers through the camp organised in collaboration with the village health centre.

During the camp, 250 villagers were examined while rehabilitation packages were distributed among 40 households, campaigner Santosh Singh Thapa shared.

Besides malnutrition, the villagers also have complaints of asthma, uterine prolapse, skin diseases and piles, Thapa added.

He cited the lack of awareness among the villagers as the cause of bearing many children in expectation of sons, smoking and other harmful habits.

Co-convener of the campaign Rabin Khatiwada said, the organisation has launched 'Mission Better Kalikot' as a long-term mission to address malnutrition in the Far-Western Nepal.

The visiting campaigners also held awareness and motivational programmes in some locations in Surkhet and Dang.