This guest post was written by Dr. Tom Spears, an MBBS from the UK who is serving at our hospital for a year (along with his wife Melanie who works in public health).  We are so grateful to our volunteer physicians who give of themselves to the people of Far Western Nepal.   My first few months in Dadeldhura… The last few months have been good (just to say that at the outset!) and I would thoroughly encourage anyone who is thinking about coming here to serve to just do it. It has also been challenging in many ways: learning [...]

This post was written by Melanie Bhatta, RN, a nurse from the United States who is serving at our hospital for a year.    Malnutrition is a significant problem here in Nepal, especially in the rural villages.  Poverty and a lack of knowledge about a balanced diet compound each other to cause long-term health effects, which we see in some of our children at the hospital.  Children are not only not getting enough food to eat, but also the foods they do eat do not provide the proper nutrients that their growing bodies need. In response to this problem, our [...]

Yesterday our MedShare container arrived after a long journey which started halfway around the world in Atlanta, Georgia in the U.S.  The 40 foot container traveled over the ocean to India, where the goods were then divided up and loaded onto two trucks which made their way to Dadeldhura.  Our staff and some of our community members helped unload the trucks, and it was like Christmas again as we inventoried all of the items we received – from basic necessities such as gloves, needles, and suture, to high quality surgical instruments and equipment to perform endoscopies.  Some of the supplies [...]

We had written previously on our blog about raising funds for a container full of donated medical equipment from MedShare.  We were thrilled to reach our goal this past September, and are now anxiously awaiting the arrival of our 40-foot container full of supplies for our hospital.  The container left the US last month and is now on a cargo ship somewhere in the China Sea on its way to Kolkata, India.  From there it will travel by land to Dadeldhura, and we hope to receive the shipment around the end of this month.  You can follow the progress of [...]