cleaning a wound early in the morning at our base camp in Chanaute village
    in Sindhupalchok , Nepal

    their damaged classroom



    we covered 500 patients during our stay in Chanaute.
    after Chanaute , we leave further to another village in Kartige

    the kind villagers of Chanaute




    villagers waiting for a bus to go to Kartige.
    bus will pass through the village two times in a day ,
    a  morning bus to Kathmandu and afternoon bus to Kartige


    village kids accompanying me while waiting for a bus to Kartige.
    they offered me some biscuits and slices of apples upon knowing that
    i just had only instant noodles for lunch.





    i was assigned to transport all 15 duffle bags approx 25kg each by bus to Chanaute.
    other team members will go to Kartige by walking on mobile-clinic basis ,
    that is to treat any patients that they meet along the way.

    villagers kind enough to help me with the heavy bags.
  

    I thought my previous ride in the mountains in
    Khardung-La , Ladakh ( click here ) was the most hardcore ride i've ever been to ,
    but this bus ride from Chanaute and Kartige was beyond my imagination.
    the bus full of paasengers rides through unpaved mountain roads ,
    crossing waterfalls , landslides and steep cliffs.
    at times we have to stop for a while to remove big rocks that fell on the road
    from the cliffs so that the bus can continue the journey.



    reached Kartige after about 1 hour journey.
    Kartige is the last stop for any vehicle on this route ,
    as beyond Kartige the road was badly damaged by landslide , making it
    inaccessible to any mobile vehicle.
    that also means that relief supplies can't reach the villages beyond Kartige.


    alone in Kartige , while waiting for other team members to arrive.

    the extend of the damaged caused by the earthquake.
   
    seeing me alone , i was approached by a group of villagers.
    they used to work in Malaysia , but unluckily were not treated good in Malaysia.
    while talking to me , with a long stare and playing with their Gurkha knife in
    a threatening manner , they told me that they were hit by a group Tamil gangsters
    while in Malaysia. i was quite scared that time , but luckily there were
    other kind villagers , French Relief Team and Nepal army around ,
    so no harm was done to me.




GEC Nepal Medical Relief Mission
Team 1
4th to 11th May 2015