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A Red Bundle
Most of last week’ volunteers stayed a week and left, three male doctors from UK joined us. Right around late morning at the Hope Clinic,...

kwankew
Jan 13, 2018


The Dispossessed
I went back to Hope Clinic working with my translator Russel, saw 27 patients mainly aches and pains, respiratory infections and...

kwankew
Jan 11, 2018


A Bleak Future
I was dropped off Obat alone by the roadside to the Obat guest house even as the medical coordinator had not been able to get in touch...

kwankew
Jan 10, 2018


At the Obat Clinic
Four of us were dropped off at an intersection and five of us including a worker from Obat, another NGO squeezed into a Tom Tom to travel...

kwankew
Jan 9, 2018


Grieving
I saw a sea turtle on the beach on my run this morning, its eyes were gouged out and one of the front legs was partially chewed off and a...

kwankew
Jan 8, 2018


Balukhali Camp
There is a beach close by the hotel we are staying and after a few days of no exercise, I found my way there and ran early in the morning...

kwankew
Jan 7, 2018


The Nightmares Began
It took us an hour and a half to get to Balukhali Camp. On the way we passed paddy fields, harvested long ago with cows and goats grazing...

kwankew
Jan 6, 2018


The Rohingya Crisis
The Rohingya are an ethnic and religious minority in Myanmar, who are facing what the UN has termed “classic ethnic cleansing.” Despite...

kwankew
Jan 5, 2018


Should You Still Care about Ebola Now that the Outbreak is Over?
I volunteered twice as a doctor during the Ebola outbreak of West Africa; once at the peak of the outbreak in Bong Ebola treatment Unit...

kwankew
Sep 7, 2016


Home
There has been no damage in the airport so my flight took off from the Tribhuvan International Airport with only a slight delay. I...

kwankew
May 13, 2015


Another Earthquake
It would take at least two days or more to do assessment in the Dhading District and it has been raining there, it seems imperative that...

kwankew
May 11, 2015


Staying Put in Kathmandu
Shanti Nepal did not supply us with a list of VDCs to do further assessment so we could not proceed today. Instead we split up into two...

kwankew
May 10, 2015


Karma
In the morning people walked around the stupa in a clockwise fashion continuously. It seemed that one could be swept away by the crowds...

kwankew
May 9, 2015


Nalang
Last night there was an aftershock at 10 pm which I did not feel. This morning about five while washing up there was a boom and the...

kwankew
May 8, 2015


Back to Dhading
We rose early in the morning and split up into two teams, our team headed west to Dhading while the other headed east to Sindhupalchowk...

kwankew
May 7, 2015


Pharping
This morning we packed a medical bag just in case we had patients to see. One of the team members met up with a Nepali man who has been...

kwankew
May 6, 2015


Back to Kathmandu
In the past few days we have traversed over a vast area of Nepal, mostly in remote parts recommended by the Ministry of Health but have...

kwankew
May 5, 2015


Fulpinkitta
I woke up around 5 am, the compound was already light. After a hasty breakfast, four of us with 2 interpreters packed a daypack and 2...

kwankew
May 4, 2015


Leaving Choutara to the Sindhupalchowk District
In the morning, we took a short walk uphill to the health center which was still standing but did not look stable enough to work in, that...

kwankew
May 3, 2015


East of Kathmandu
In the morning I went running in the mountain village and met many of the locals who lost their homes, no injuries that I could discern...

kwankew
May 2, 2015
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