Post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support: experience from the 2015 Nepal earthquak

Published 2017
Type Case study
Theme Accountability to Affected Populations, Communicating with Communities, Communication with affected populations, Disaster management, Early Recovery, Field coordination, Humanitarian Assistance, Inter-Cluster Coordination, Livelihood, Mental Health / Psycho Social Support, Natural Disasters, Other, Preparedness
Language English
Pages: 8
Uploader Hala Elassy
Publisher(s) WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health
Sector(s)
Location(s) Nepal
Author(s) Surendra Sherchan , Reuben Samuel , Kedar Marahatta , Nazneen Anwar, Mark Humphrey Van Ommeren, Roderico Ofrin
Disaster(s) earthquake
Source: "Post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support: experience from the 2015 Nepal earthquake"
Find more on these topics : disaster, Earthquake, emergency, humanitarian response, mental health, Nepal, Psychosocial support, South Asia
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On 25 April 2015, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck Nepal, which, along with the subsequentaftershocks, killed 8897 people, injured 22 303 and left 2.8 million homeless. Previous efforts to provideservices for mental health and psychological support (‎MHPSS)‎ in humanitarian settings in Nepal have beenlargely considered inadequate and poorly coordinated. Immediately after the earthquake, the Governmentof Nepal declared a state of emergency and the health sector started to respond. The immediate responseto the earthquake was coordinated following the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (‎IASC)‎ cluster approach.One month after the disaster, integrated MHPSS subclusters were initiated to coordinate the activities ofmany national and international, governmental and nongovernmental, partners.