Yesterday we arrived in Sirkot to set up and run our two day camp. Added to dental, eyes and women’s health we are also offering a chest and TB screening service at this camp. Despite there being a crowd upon our arrival, for Sirkot it was a fairly quiet day with only 329 registrations. Our […]
After missing a year, we headed back to rural Syangja to run what was our 5th series of health camps in this region. As we walked up to Gabde School, the location for our first camp, the lines had already formed, with early arrivals keen not to miss out on the opportunity to have their eyes and teeth […]
Hot off the back of our highly successful eye camp in Baruwa Village, Sindhupulchok our 8 cataract patients, Pasang and Community Medical Assistant, Rabina packed themselves into a jeep for the long, bumpy journey to Kathmandu. With a probable average age for our patients somewhere in the mid 70s, for most of them it was their […]
On Thursday morning we set off with two senior optometrists from Kathmandu’s Teaching Hospital, Dr Sanjeeb Mishra and Dr Gauri Shankar Shrestha to finally fulfil a promise made to the community of Baruwa in Sindhupalchok, to return and support them in their health care needs by running a free eye camp. After a long, bumpy […]
Last week 64 people crowded on to two buses supported by our local health care workers Kumar and Jhalak – 32 cataract patients and 32 carers – and headed to Pokhara for a simple, but life changing operation to restore their sight. After a further series of screening, two ladies were referred to Tilgunga Eye Hospital […]
