DOCTOR TRAVELER

Everyone wants his or her conjugal life a happy and sweet but it does not always happen to everyone. Moreover, they seek trust, faithfulness and understanding from each other. Life is short and nobody knows how it continues and how it ends. Sometimes, all the swear they made will be broken and devastates life which is not expected to every couple’s life. When something goes wrong we hardly prepare for solution we rather blame each other. When it is already late, we started thinking about repairing life when life is irreversibly damaged by that time. He is now in ICU bed with oxygen mask on his face. His wife is nearby him with somber face. It seems he is ready to leave forever. His respiration is deep and slow. Indicator is showing heart rate is slowing down. There is tick-tick sound of indicator showing he has no adequate oxygenation. He just opens his mask and starts talking very slowly with his cyanosed lips. ‘Well dear, you asked me yesterday, why not I told you about

We all have experienced the physical and psychological trauma after earthquake but no one stayed there waiting for help from others rather we stood up and started rebuilding our structure inside out. The inner energy helped us rebuild ourselves and give helping hands to our brothers and sisters. We might have accomplished a tiny drop of help but this was among million drops that helped whole country move on. After visiting Sindhupalchowk and Dhading, I was regular for my posting in Bir hospital. After earthquake in 29 th Baisakh in Dolakha,   I was thinking about going Dolakha. Last Saturday, I got a call from my friend Binod Dhungana who is now internist in America to join his team for Dolakha. He and his team have been supporting earthquake affected sites. I just said ‘yes’ without thinking my schedule in Bir Hospital. I did bag pack and was ready for Dolakha. Our team has planned to provide relief materials and medical support. Next day in the morning we left for Dolakha.

Sanimaya, 61 years old grandma, from Chakoti village was buried under her collapsed house while saving her grandchildren. Her house that suffered from heavy cracks in first earthquake attack got collapsed in second one; epicenter was nearby Kodari, Sindhupalchowk. She uttered that she was with her grand children after having meal. Though she could not run away as the earth shook hard she just threw her two grandchildren onto corn farm; luckily they did not have any trauma. After the moment she tried to lift herself up but could not, she realized she was severed by stone block that fell on her right leg; strong she crawled away from collapsed house with her injured, bent leg. She was later rescued by her sons and her leg was splinted with local materials. Some local leaders mentioned that helicopter was coming to uplift people alike; unfortunately she could not reach to helicopter as it left before she could reach it. She waited and waited bearing pain but no other helicopte

                                     Yesterday in the evening, I was with my friends in Okhaldhunga chatting about Nepal’s current political scenario and the insignificance of Nepal Bandh. Nepal Bandh is people’s unwanted theme but still the political leaders launching this in the name of people for the sake of people. It is becoming as if it is the essential part of our 12 month calendar in a year. It is raising false perception that it is our essential one by putting on us the Goebbels’s theory.   I don’t know when will we get rid of it? I got call from hospital to support on call doctor. I just reached hospital in no time. This was a 19 year young lady who delivered her baby in her home and now in hypovolemic shock secondary to placenta retained in her womb and the womb was not contracted since placenta inside the womb. Literally she was in near death condition. She was in OT table intubated by anesthesia assistant and on call doctor had been trying to remove placenta. I