4 results for month: 05/2021
Oxygen equipment now arrived in remote areas
We are SO happy to announce that oxygen equipment has now arrived from Kathmandu to ALL the remote locations we are supporting - Mugu District Hospital, Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, Kalikot District Hospital, plus Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Kathmandu. Thank you to PHASE Nepal for their amazing work to help us source and distribute. We would like to thank everyone who has already donated, and in particular a group of young Nepalis living and working in Reading who have raised nearly £700 so far - an astonishing amount. We have also had one ENORMOUS donation of $15,000 from a new donor, James Lin, who found us over the internet, for ...
Oxygen equipment arrives in Nepal
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We are VERY pleased to announce that, through some of our supporters' amazing donations and the extremely quick response by DFN and PHASE NEPAL, we have been able to send a 10 litre much needed oxygen concentrator, along with 8 oximeters and 40 sets of PPE to Patan Hospital in Kathmandu. The equipment arrived this morning, 20th May, and our very own Dr Kamal was there to sign the receipt on behalf of DFN. A jeep loaded with more concentrators, oximeters and PPE is now on its way to the remote regions of Kalikot District Hospital, the Karnali Academy (Jumla), and Mugu District hospital all remote regions in the far ...
Covid news from Dr Prakash
News just in from Dr Prakash, one of our graduated Doctors For Nepal, who is currently working as a doctor in the remote region of Doti in north west Nepal. He and his colleagues are finding it extremely difficult to treat any patients presenting with Covid symptoms as they have no equipment or ICU facilities available. Please read Prakash's account in his own words:
"Namaste. You must know the pandemic situation all over Nepal is currently out of control and hospitals facing deepening crisis that is likely to get worse in coming weeks. Most of the hospitals running out of oxygen, supplies, medicine and beds so that neither we could admit any ...
Urgent Nepal Covid-19 Appeal
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZKrTc9EYs&t=18s
We desperately need your support to help us tackle the Covid disaster that is rapidly spreading across Nepal. There has been a 668% increase in cases over the last two weeks (Oxford university data tracking site) with us receiving frantic daily pleas for help from our friends and colleagues in Nepal. Dr. Kamal (one of our DFN doctors undertaking his internship in Kathmandu) says “Our Health system has collapsed... hospitals cannot take patients because we don’t have any life-saving Oxygen... we are helpless”.
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