NHEICC has launched the website under the title "www.nheicc.gov.np" with the financial support of WHO and technical support of local consultants. The main objective of this website is to disseminate the activities of HELLIS Nepal to its participants libraries and member countries. It also includes the brief information of participant libraries, linkage to member countries, and linkage to most popular health related organizations. Ministry of Health is the parent's body so users could get the information about the misty of Health, Department of Health Services and it's different division and their publication list, Apart from these services the user could get the information on union list of health science periodicals, documents on nursing, health related documents published from different INGO's and NGO's and IEC materials developed from NHEICC etc.

NHEICC becomes the member HINARI ( Health Internet work Access to Research Initiative).
HINARI project is team effort of WHO and 6 biggest biomedical publishers as Blackwell, Levier science, The Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Walters Lower International Health & Science, Springer Vela and John Wiley. The secretary General of the United Nations launched it in September 2000 under the leadership of the World Health Organization. The core elements of this project are content, Internet connectivity and capacity building. HINARI has brought public and private part under the principles of ensuring equitable access to health information. It created the environment to bridge the digital divide in health ensuring that relevant information and technologies to deliver it are widely available and effectively; professional, researcher, scientist and policy maker. It provides to access the full text of medical journal around 2000 titles. There are constrain like most of the publishers used to provide to access the full text of articles from 1996 or 1995 on-wards only.

This service would be great support to the health personnel, health researcher as well as health planner to get the full text of articles. This will help to strengthen the preventive and curative health services which leads to the healthy lifestyles and health society.

Currently the health personnel are getting benefit from this service and the users would be most in future. Marketing of available HINARI services are going on.

Training on tips of techniques to access the health information from Internet.
A training on how to access the health information from Internet was organized at Mechi Zonal Hospital; Western Regional Hospital; Lumbini Zonal Hospital; Narayani Sub-regional Hospital, B.P.K Memorial Cancer Hospital and Manipal Medical College which helped the health personnel to access the health information at their won location.

Workshop on library Science for Junior Librarians:
National Health Education Information and Communication Center, DHS, MOH in co-operation with the World Health Organization, organized a 10 days workshop on basic library science for junior librarians from 31 July 1994-9 ague. 1994. The workshop was organized with specific objective to strengthen the HELLIS activity of NHEICC so as to support other health institution's libraries and relevant users. Mr. Uttam Ratna Shakya designed the course contents of workshop and served as Course Co-ordinator through out the program.

Library Management:

• Computerization of books and periodicals were completed using the software (a) Books management system (BMS) for books (b) Periodical management system (PMS) for record the periodicals develop from WHO/SEARO
   
• Compilation and publication of Union List of Health Science Periodicals with the coverage from 1966-1992 and 1981-1997 were completed.

CD/ROM Medline Search services:
HELLIS Library has started CD/ROM Medline literature search service from 23 Feb. 1997 onwards. This service is getting popular among the health personnel for retrieving the health literature from the preparation of paper presentation as well as thesis preparation. HELLIS Library has the collection of CD/ROM Medline (Silver platter) from 1966 to date. In as average 50 users/month are benefiting from this service.

INTERNET Facility and E-Mail Service:
HELLIS Library facilitates to access the INTERNET, and information highway, through Mercantile Office System from July 1997 onwards. Health personnel could benefit from this service to retrieve the latest health information. We are providing the Internet access facility to health personnel free of cost as a trail basis to monitor the interest to health personnel in retrieving the health information from September 1999 onwards.

Survey of Zonal Hospitals:
Survey on existing library facilities of 10 zonal Hospitals has been completed in 1997 with WHO financial support. This survey was conducted to strengthen the HELLIS network activities nation wide and to make it responsible to expand its activities upto zonal hospital level. Survey report also revealed the importance of HELLIS network in Nepal.

Current awareness Services:

• Circulation of Content pages of medical journals to the participant libraries and zonal hospitals was started from April 1998 to December 1998 for the maximum utilization of medical journals and to provide current awareness services to health personnel.
• List of subscribed medical journals was circulated to all participant libraries and zonal hospitals for their information to inspire the use of available journals at HELLIS Focal Point Library.

Submission of Draft Proposal on Establishment of Central Health Science Information & Documentation Centre.

• Library Consultant Mr. Shakya had submitted a " Draft Proposal on Establishment of Central Health Science Information & Documentation Centre" to NHEICC which was circulated to Secretary, Ministry of Health: Director General, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health: WHO and librarians of different Institute for their valuable suggestions.
• In order to support Establishment of Central Health Science Information & -Documentation Centre, NHEICC had organized 3 days national workshop from 17-19 August 1998 and renamed as National Health Information & Documentation.
• Ministry of Health had allocated 2 Ropani of land, within the Ministry of Health complex, for the construction of building.
• NHEICC had proposed to establish HELLIS network center as a separate wing of its in new organogram submitted to Ministry of Health.

Photo copy services:

Photocopying service is providing at minimum charge for health personnel.

HELLIS NEPAL Participation Libraries:

1. Teaching Hospital Library
2. Nursing Campus, Maharajgunj
3. Ayurved Campus
4. Bir Hospital
5. Patan Hospital
6. Mental Hospital
7. Nepal Eye Hospital
8. Shree Panch Indra Rajya Laxmi Maternity Hospital
9. Shahid Sukra Raj Tropical Infectious Diseases Hospital
10. Birendra Police Hospital
11. Birendra Army Hospital
12. Kanti Children Hospital
13. United Mission Nepal
14. Nepal Health Research Council
15. Resource Centre for Primary Health Care
16. Royal Drugs Ltd.
17. Department of Drug Administration
18. SAARC Tuberculosis Centre
19. Royal Drug Research Laboratory

HELLIS Network Member Countries:

1. Bangladesh
2. Bhutan
3. DPR Korea
4. India
5. Indonesia
6. Maldives
7. Myanmar
8. Nepal
9. Sri Lanka
10. Thailand