Meeting the students
We arrived in Kathmandu yesterday, and after a blessing at Bouddha Stupa, we had the pleasure of having lunch with DFN's 3 new students today (Prakash, Apsara, and Kamal). They are all so grateful to be supported by us, and excited to talk about talk about their medical training, but also to learn about life and medicine in the uk. We then headed by plane to nepaljung- in the far west of nepal, where we are preparing for the next stage of our journey. Being eaten alive by Mosquitos, and somewhat surprised by the heat..
Preparing for the upcoming trip to Nepal..
Plans are heavily underway for Dr Kate Yarrow (Founder and chairman of Doctors For Nepal) to visit the remote district of Kalikot, along with Gareth Taylor (or Taylor-Made Media).
The party will be leaving for Nepal this Thursday, and will be journeying to one of the worlds most isolated areas by foot. They are hoping to film the experiences of patients trying to access healthcare, and will be following their stories as they unfold. They will also follow the work of DFN’s first doctor - Lalit, as he goes about his gruelling daily work high up in the Himalayas. Kate will ...
Dr Lalit makes remarkable impact on remote health post
DFN's first graduate, Dr Lalit, is making an incredible impact on his community. He has been posted to Kumalgaun Primary Health Centre - a extremely remote village in the far west of Nepal. He is the first doctor that the centre has employed, and his determination and drive to improve local health care, has led to power (a donated generator), and a water supply - which Lalit helped to dig and lay pipes for by hand. The photos show the incredibly hard conditions in which he is working, and the obstacles that both patients and labourers must overcome on a daily basis to ...
A UK medical students elective in Nepal
Experiences of a UK 4th year medical student on elective in Manma District Hospital, Nepal
"When the hospital was first established by Medecin Sans Frontiér (MSF) during civil unrest in the mid 2000s a few of the current staff lived nearby and remember how it was at that time. Although they were not working at the hospital they were impressed by the resources that the organisation could bring in, mostly via helicopter, to run and manage what would become Kalikot District Hospital, when peace came and the government took over management. Nowadays the X-Ray machine is in ...
Dr Lalit goes back to his district with UK elective student
We are incredibly pleased to announce that Lalit - our first DFN doctor, has secured himself another year in the very isolated district of Kalikot. The longer he is able to work there, the bigger the impact he will have on his community.
Medical student Louis, from the UK, has just arrived there on his elective placement, and will be spending a month under Lalit's supervision to learn about healthcare in remote Nepal. Here are his first impressions:
"Getting up to Kalikot Distirict Hospital (KDH) takes a two day single track road trip up from Nepalgunj & during rainy ...