KATHMANDU, Feb 9. The Nepal Red Cross Society has announced that it will deploy more than one thousand trained first aid volunteers across 41 districts for the House of Representatives election scheduled for March 5, 2026.
The information was shared by Lila Khanal, Deputy Director of the Health Department of the Nepal Red Cross Society, while speaking at an orientation program held on Sunday for volunteers selected for election day deployment in Kathmandu district. She informed that the same interaction will be held in Bhaktapur and Lalitpur too.
During the election, the local and provincial volunteers will be mobilized, she said.
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Replying to a query, she informed that the budget remains an area of concern for mobilizing volunteers with the necessary materials. “However, we have support from the Red Cross Society from other nations who offer help for humanitarian causes,” she said.
At the same program, Shyamkaji Dotel, Chairperson of the Red Cross Society Kathmandu District Chapter, said that in the first phase, 75 skilled volunteers have been selected to mobilize first aid teams near various polling centers in Kathmandu district.
The selected volunteers have been encouraged to provide humanitarian services while working within the values and principles of the Red Cross.
The Nepal Red Cross Society has stated that it will mobilize one thousand first aid teams for the election. The organization will deploy more than one thousand trained first aid volunteers in 41 districts for the House of Representatives election scheduled for March 5, 2026.
The volunteers selected in this manner have been motivated to provide humanitarian services while adhering to the values and principles of the Red Cross.\
Nepal Red Cross often works at the forefront whenever a humanitarian crisis surfaces. When the country witnessed severe earthquakes, natural disaster and other calamities, the society mobilised its volunteers. During the Gen Z movement of September 8 and 9, the Society volunteers and its ambulances were the first to reach the protest sites to offer help to the injured and others, Dotel informed.
