News from Meena in Mugu District Hospital
We have just heard from Meena who tells us about two different emergency cases she has been involved with at Mugu District Hospital. Her encounters are an example of how important it is to have fully qualified doctors working at health posts and district hospitals in the remotest areas of Nepal. Meena has to make decisions and act quickly to save lives. There is also an ongoing struggle to persuade the remote communities to seek help from the medical profession rather than relying solely on their local herbal medicines.
Please read Meena's fascinating descriptions ...
Huge congratulations to Dr Prakash!
We are hugely proud to announce that our 4th scholarship recipient has passed his medical finals to become our 4th Doctor For Nepal; congratulations Dr Prakash Thakulla!!
Prakash has passed his final year 5 medical student exams and will graduate later in the year. He is now entering his 1 year internship as a doctor at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu, after which he will apply for a job as a doctor back in his remote region of Nepal.
Concert in aid of Doctors for Nepal
HAYDN'S NELSON MASS
A fabulous concert is being held on SATURDAY 9 MARCH 2019 at 7pm in St Mark's Church, Alma Road, Reigate RH2 0DA
CANTAMUS REIGATE CHOIR and ASHFORD BAROQUE ENSEMBLE directed by NICK LANDAUER are very kindly donating their talent and time to perform the following:
HAYDN: NELSON MASS
WILLIAMSON: PROCESSION OF PSALMS
and music by HOWARD GOODALL and others
Admission: by programme £12 on the door (concessions £10, students and U18s free)
Any proceeds and a retiring collection will go to Doctors for Nepal for which we are extremely ...
CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAMDFN
Huge congratulations to TEAMDFN who ran for us in the Brighton Half Marathon yesterday. It was a beautiful sunny day and our five runners - Bea, Tim, Issy, Eli and Connor - all excelled themselves. We cannot thank them enough for all their fundraising efforts - so far they have raised over £1,900 between them. All of this money will go directly to help fund our students in Nepal. Without the amazing fundraising efforts of people like Bea, Tim, Issy, Eli and Connor our charity couldn't survive - THANK YOU THANK YOU.
You can still donate here if you're ...
News from medical student Jeevan
Jeevan has just sent us some great pictures and news. We have been fundraising in Australia to be able to purchase Littmann stethoscopes for our students - Jeevan was VERY pleased to receive his stethoscope and writes:
"This is of great help during my ICM classes nowadays on every Monday. It will be very much helpful in clinical ward rotations in a few months. . . Thanks for all your continued love and support.
I completed my block examinations and they have been good. Now I am at the final block of second year of basic sciences. Everything is going very smooth ...
