3 results for month: 04/2015


The Nepal Appeal

Doctors for Nepal has launched The Nepal Appeal, to raise funds in the immediate aftermatch of the recent earthquake, and to aid with the assistance of ongoing medical needs in rural Nepal. Your help is desperately needed at this time and for the foreseeable future.  As the situation has evolved and information is coming through to us, the gravity and enormity of the needs in Nepal cannot be emphasised enough. Doctors for Nepal is undertaking a four phased response; your donation will be used to help achieve these goals, and your donation will enable Nepal to cope with both the immediate and long term effects of the earthquake. To donate, ...

Clinging to life

The reality of being born in Nepal is that statistically speaking, you have a one in 20 chance of dying in infancy. In rural areas, where access to health care is minimal, or you are born to a mother with many other children to look after, your chance of dying goes up even higher.  We came across this small day old baby when we arrived inManma Hospital.  His mother had had a difficult delivery, and had required intervention from the midwives upon arrival at the hospital. He had aspirated (breathed in his own faeces) prior to delivery, and his lungs were in very poor condition.  The only equipment available was a small amount of ...

Treacherous roads

Travel in nepal is notoriously dangerous. The tiny planes that serve the far reaches of the country do not infrequently fall out of the sky, and the "roads" are not roads as we know them in the West. The Karnali Highway is a very big name for a very small road; it is, to all intences and purposes, a track that clings to the side of a mountain. It is extremely bumpy, in some places gravelled (that's the good bit!), and has absolutely no defences what so ever. We passed a truck on the first day which had just gone off a cliff; the driver was dead. Later we passed a bus that had fallen hundreds of metres down a ravine into the river below, killing ...