Welcome Yuna our new nursing student
We are very pleased to welcome our 5th nursing student Yuna Shahi to the DFN family. Yuna is in her 2nd year of study at Patan Academy Nursing College and we are delighted to be able to support her after her father was sadly killed in an accident working in Dubai. Without our support, Yuna would have been unable to complete her studies.
Yuna says: “Dear DFN, my lifelong dream of attending medical school is moving forward. Thanks to generous educational scholarship from DFN. Without the scholarship, students like me would not have been able to pursue education...
Latest news from Santosh, Purna and Dhanendra
All our medical students are hard at work, but here's our most recent news from three of them - Purna, Dhanendra and Santosh:
SANTOSH has been studying at PAHS now for the past four months during which time he’s completed the first part of his foundation block and his study of principal human biology. For the next four weeks he is out in the community learning about the responsibilities that community health volunteers have, in particular in regards to women’s health and contraception. Santosh is extremely grateful for the support Doctors for Nepal has given ...
What impact does one doctor have? Dr Lalit’s story
I am working with Nick Simmons Institute (NSI - and NGO that funds extra doctors in Government hospitals) in Taplejung district- the most remote area of eastern Nepal, home to Mount Kanchanjungha, the 3rd highest peak in the world. This is my 3rd year of commitment to work back in a rural area after I received my scholarship with Doctors For Nepal.
Four months into working here, I work across two different areas.
Firstly is my day to day clinical practice. There are two doctors from the government, and us two doctors from NSI. All the other three are gone ...
A pregnant woman’s journey
When staying in Lalit's village we were asked to see a pregnant woman who was unwell. She was 6 months pregnant, and appeared very unwell with abdominal pain and a fever. She was lucky to have lalit in the village that day; after examining her in her house in front of the elders, she was advised to urgently go to hospital as she hadn't felt her baby move for a week.
The only way to hospital was by foot, and she was too ill to walk. We followed her journey, as she was carried in a chair on the backs of a porter and her husband - who took it in turns to carry her down and ...
Morning meeting with Lalit
Leaving civilisation
We have woken to the sound of tropical birds, and strange Nepalese throat clearing noises in nepaljung in the west of Nepal. Lalit (see above) was delighted with his solar powered radio gift, and we have just had a good breakfast to set us up for the day. This morning we head off by jeep to into the jungle, were our journey to Kalikot begins. We are all really excited, and slightly anxious to know what hurdles we may come across. Keep watching to see how things turn out...