Kerauja
| Site: | Kerauja |
| As Of: | 2015-05-01 |
| Village: | Kerauja |
| District: | Gorkha |
| Report: | May 8, 2015 – Kerauja is a picturesque village that sits between two massive mountains with a population around 3000. When the quake came, it wiped out many lives and left only around 4 buildings intact. When we landed there, the villagers were rebuilding their houses, scrapping off the grains from the mixture of mud and stones and moving their belongings uphill to their animal sheds. All the structures were destroyed and even the health workers were busy repairing their own houses in the villages. The animal sheds?were spared so people were now moving in with their animals or into empty sheds as the animals were killed by landslides. The trails were gone and the village was cut off from the rest of the country. We met a couple of Nepal Army soldiers camping out to provide relief materials but their own rations were running out. One soldier said his own house was destroyed in his village but he was there helping others pull their loved ones from the debris.
We still saw trauma and minor injuries from “falling rocks”. While the initial injuries were caused by the quake and falling debris, the current ones were caused while rebuilding their broken houses or cleaning the debris for their belongings. We took care of hundreds of patients on two different sites because of the overwhelming need. Many had mental health issues and psychological trauma and this should be prioritized and integrated with the primary care delivery when rebuilding the next generation of healthcare system in Nepal. We cared for a young man with double valve replacement. He only had meds for 3 more days as the rest of them were buried in the debris and it would take him at least a week to walk/trek/drive to the nearest major town because of the destruction of walkable trails/roads. We ordered the meds from a 24hr pharmacy in Kathmandu that was sent with our helicopter the next morning. |
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| Medical: | May 8, 2015 – We still saw trauma and minor injuries from “falling rocks”. While the initial injuries were caused by the quake and falling debris, the current ones were caused while rebuilding their broken houses or cleaning the debris for their belongings. We took care of hundreds of patients on two different sites because of the overwhelming need. Many had mental health issues and psychological trauma and this should be prioritized and integrated with the primary care delivery when rebuilding the next generation of healthcare system in Nepal. We cared for a young man with double valve replacement. He only had meds for 3 more days as the rest of them were buried in the debris and it would take him at least a week to walk/trek/drive to the nearest major town because of the destruction of walkable trails/roads. We ordered the meds from a 24hr pharmacy in Kathmandu that was sent with our helicopter the next morning. |
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