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The International Rescue Committee entered Nepal in 2005 to address the basic needs of people affected by the conflict between the Government of Nepal and the Maoist insurgency. With a focus on Nepal's mid-west region, the IRC is currently implementing health programmes in the remote district of Jajarkot.

As a result of poverty, a lack of roads, displacement and the destruction of local infrastructure during the Maoist conflict, people in Jajarkot have insufficient access to quality healthcare.

With support from the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department, the IRC developed a project to restore and strengthen Nepal's health facilities, deliver drugs and supplies to its clinics, provide training to volunteer health workers, and help communities develop and manage their healthcare programmes.

The IRC has also addressed widespread cases of uterus prolapse – a painful condition where a women's uterus detaches – through diagnosis, local treatment and facilitation of surgery.