Kathmandu is as empty as it was on \u2018bandh\u2019 days (strikes imposed during the Maoist insurrection) or the Dashain holiday period. The shops are shut.\u00a0 However, some are beginning timidly to open again.\u00a0 The hospital are just beginning to get on top of the more acute cases linked to the earthquake. At the Nepal Orthopedic Hospital, all the medical activity takes place in an organised way outdoors; an immense surgical tent with three operating tables, and several hospitalisation tents (there are 160 beds compared with the usual 100). The staff are tired.<\/p>\n
After the Bhadchchek camp, we left for Solukhumbu, which had been badly affected by the second quake of last Tuesday. Many, many buildings have been affected. Built of stones and clay, the walls fissure and become unstable, and thus the houses become uninhabitable. A further shock and they would collapse.<\/p>\n
And what about the monsoon, which should arrive in two or three weeks time.\u00a0 The priority today is shelter for the population.\u00a0 With the participation of the local administration, to help the most affected families, we have distributed tarpaulins or tents (up to 250), so that they can construct shelters away from their homes.\u00a0 The same for blankets (up to 350) and rice (3 tons) so that this population can cope as quickly as possible.\u00a0 We are participating actively in this operation.<\/p>\n
In Phaplu the hospital, badly damaged, cannot house the patients.\u00a0 We have set up an immense hospitalisation tent with the help of UNICEF, as well as a number of other tents. Once more, everyone has to come into these shelters while awaiting reconstruction. We have been helping the local medical team to reorganise everything and assisting with consultations. Large cases of medicines needed for the next few months have been coming in, taking advantage of the lorries bringing other material. The road will probably be cut off by landslides during the monsoon.<\/p>\n
The children are not going to school.\u00a0 The government decided not to re-open the schools until 29 May.\u00a0 More than 1000 schools have been destroyed or declared unfit (possible collapse) in the most affected areas\u2026<\/p>\n
At a later stage, no doubt, reconstruction will begin, but there is so much still to do before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu is as empty as it was on \u2018bandh\u2019 days (strikes imposed during the Maoist insurrection) or the Dashain holiday period. The shops are shut.\u00a0 However, some are beginning timidly to open again.\u00a0 The hospital are just beginning to get on top of the more acute cases linked to the earthquake. At the Nepal Orthopedic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hm"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n