NEPAL EARTHQUAKE 2015
Our Response: Medical Team Mobilization
April 28th – 27th May 2015
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Table of Contents
2 Team Work & Collaboration. 4
3.1.2 Additional Medicinal Support. 6
4.1 Association Partages, FRANCE. 8
www.gofundme.com/medmobilisation. 8
4.3 Name List of online and offline Donors: 8
5.2 Expenses by Categories. 11
5.3 Expenses in full Details. 12
5.3.1 Simjung VDC, GORKHA.. 12
5.3.2 Sunkhani & Sundrawati VDCs, DOLAKHA.. 13
5.3.3 Kalkingjor, Koshidekha VDC, KAVRE.. 14
5.3.4 Syadul, Dhusha VDC, DHADING.. 15
6 Remaining Fund: NRs 405,873.92. 16
Table of Figures
Figure 4.1- Funding & Fund Raising. 8
Figure 5.1-Expenses by Districts. 11
Figure 5.2- Expenses by Categories. 11
1 Background
11:56 am, Saturday
25th April 2015:
It was like any other weekend for all Nepalese people. However, just 26 second later at 11:56:26 am, everything changed for forever! The earthquake with magnitude of 7.8 with violence intensity struck Nepal killing more than 8856 people to date, injuring more than 22309 people, and making millions of people homeless within that period of few seconds!
1.1 Our Response
To some extent, people from our village Jhumlawang, surrounding villages in Rukum, and mid-western part of Nepal, were lucky as devastating earthquake of that day, and aftershocks thereafter, didn’t cause any serious harm to any living beings, and also didn’t damage buildings and other infrastructures as much as it did in other parts of the country.
As our community and nearby surrounding villages were luckily escaped from devastating earthquake of that faithful day, and hundreds of other aftershocks on later dates, our community based organisation- Jhumlawang Village Foundation (JVF-NEPAL) – jvf-nepal.org, decided to mobilise its Kathmandu based members to collaborate and work with national, international volunteers, organisations and communities to provide primary health care for survivors of earthquakes in remote villages of highly affected districts.
1.2 Preparation
Preparation for medical team mobilisation started on arrival of our foundation’s International Coordinator, USA/ Canada Coordinator and Media Coordinator in Kathmandu on 28th of April, 2015. First of all, we had to identify most affected remote villages, where no other medical teams had been deployed before. Then, after going through all legal procedure, obtaining authorisation from the Ministry of Health and Population, collaborating with trekking companies for coordinating with national and international volunteers, our partners abroad, and finally launching online crowd funding campaign for this mission: www.gofundme.com/medmobilisation , we were ready.
1.3 On the Ground
The first medial team with rescue volunteers (firemen) from AAIP & APPUI, France was dispatched on 2nd of May for Simjung, Gorkha. Then, 3 more medical teams were mobilized in Dolakha, Kavrepalanchok and Dhading district until 25th May 2015.
Dr Pierre Fouillant for Gorkha, Dr Anupam Ghimire for Dolakha, Dr Manik Lama for Kavrepalanchok, and Dr Namrata Bhatta for Dhading led these medical teams.
In 5 health camps of 4 mostly affected districts, our team of 30 medical professionals with 24 logistic volunteers, we provided medical treatment and counselling for 1362 patients. During evening and early morning, doctors and nurses reached out to those patients in their homes, walking hours in few cases, who could not come to the site due to their frail health condition.
Our Pharmacists and Health Assistants dispensed and counselled about medicines as per prescription and provided information regarding course, dosage and side effects. We provided two box of first aid kits for security personnel (Mobile Team of Nepal Army), two boxes of medical supplies to Thami community, and three big boxes to the Gauri Shankar Hospital in Charikot, Dolakha. Our medical team handed over 10 boxes of medicines and few rescue equipments ( from our French Firemen) to the Sub-Health Post Centre in Simjung, Gorkha so that community members of that village could get free medicines while stock last.
In collaboration with Karma Flights Medical Team based in Dhoreni, Gorkha, we were able to arrange a helicopter to airlift 4 patients from Gorkha to send them better equipped hospital in Pokhara for their emergency operations. Our medical team referred 7 serious cases to hospitals in Kathmandu of which 3 of them were supported financially for their travel and accommodation cost. One of the referral patients 1 year old Nabya Siwakoti will be coming to Kathmandu from Dolakha with her mother within next month. We will bear the cost of their travelling and accommodation during her operation.
While our medical teams were busy on treating injured, distressed, and chronic patients and counselling them and their family members, logistic volunteers of the team were doing their best to assist our medical team and also offer any support they could offer to those people of communities in need of. They offered their hands to build temporary shelter, rescued a pregnant buffalo, which was confined in very narrow space for 11 days under completely flattened house in Simjung, Gorkha. After rescuing her, the team also made a tarpaulin shelter to protect her from elements.
2 Team Work & Collaboration
It would not have been possible to offer what we had, and could at those critical times to these earthquake survivors of one of the biggest and destructive natural disasters in Nepal’s history, without these amazing and selfless medics and volunteers who put themselves in a risk countless times during these operations on the ground.
Similarly, without willingness of joining hands to provide us logistics for our team on the ground by Kathmandu based trekking companies, it would have been very difficult for us to operate in those very uncertain times and unsafe places.
Likewise, without you, generous and kind people from across the world who donated money generously, organised fund raising events, and offered us your solidarity in these very difficult time, we would not have been able to buy medicines for survivors, provide foods and transportations to our medics and volunteers.
2.1 Medical Team Members:
| S.N. | Medical Doctors | Nurses | Health Assistants | Pharmacists |
| 1 | Dr Ajeevan Gautam | Anita Shrestha | Jayram Budha Magar | Shailesh Sharma |
| 2 | Dr Anupam Ghimire | Anuka Thapa | Rajana Shrestha | Raj Kumar Sapkota |
| 3 | Dr Anwesh Koirala | Binita Dutraj | Shambhu Ranpal | |
| 4 | Dr Barsha Bista | Charlene Tomasi | ||
| 5 | Dr Ganesh Bhushal | Christine Robert | ||
| 6 | Dr Kamala Bura | Julien Lieggi | ||
| 7 | Dr Manik Lama | Kabita Shrestha | ||
| 8 | Dr Namrata Sindan | Maxime Rageau | ||
| 9 | Dr Namrata Bhatta | Roshani Deshar | ||
| 10 | Dr Nishchal Dhakal | Sujata Maharjan | ||
| 11 | Dr Pierre Fouillant | |||
| 12 | Dr Rajiv Ranjan Yadav | |||
| 13 | Dr Ram Suphal Ram | |||
| 14 | Dr Shivir Dahal | |||
| 15 | Dr Vincent Thouvenin |
2.2 Logistic Volunteers:
| S.N. | In the Field | S.N. | In the Field | |
| 1 | Binu Rasaili | 2 | Bishnu Kumar Thokar | |
| 3 | Chhaya Budha Magar | 4 | Didier Bayon | |
| 5 | Franck Canellas | 6 | Gilles Perroux | |
| 7 | Kush Budha (Kusum) | 8 | Lanam Dorje Tamang | |
| 9 | Manik Tamang | 10 | Pradeep Kumar Rai (Byakul Maila) | |
| 11 | Prakirti Budha Magar | 12 | Pratibha Budha Magar | |
| 13 | Rajendra Kuwar | 14 | Raju Ghising(Journalist, Kantipur National Daily) | |
| 15 | Rhytm Lama(Earthquake Action Nepal) | 16 | Smita Magar | |
| 17 | Sebastien Fiolet | 18 | Sumitra Chepang | |
| 19 | Umesh Banjara | 20 | Yannis Zeidler | |
| In Kathmandu | ||||
| 1 | Durlabh Magar | |||
| 2 | Neb Bahadur Bohara | |||
| 3 | Padma Linkha Magar | |||
| 4 | Raju Gurung (Legal Advisor) | |||
3 Partners
3.1.1 Health Professionals
Aides Actions Internationales Pompiers (AAIP), FRANCE
Action Pompier Pour L’ Urgence Internationle (APPUI), FRANCE
Graduate Pharmacists’ Association Nepal (GPAN), NEPAL
KIST Medical College Teaching Hospital, Lalitpur, NEPAL
Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, NEPAL
3.1.2 Additional Medicinal Support
Rashmita Darlami, Nepalese Nursing Association, UK
Graduate Pharmacists’ Association Nepal (GPAN), NEPAL
Nepal Brest Cancer Foundation, Kathmandu, NEPAL
http://www.nepalbreastcancerfoundation.org
Dipak Lama, Kathmandu Jaycees, NEPAL
http://www.kathmandujaycees.org.np
3.1.3 Logistics
Couleurs Peak Treks & Expedition, NEPAL
http://couleurstreksandexpedition.com
Karma Flights, NEPAL
Manoj Association, FRANCE
http://thierry-manojnepal.blogspot.co.uk
Mountain Monarch Adventures (MMA), NEPAL
Partage et Soins, FRANCE
https://www.facebook.com/partageetsoins
Partages Nepal Treks& Expedition, NEPAL
http://www.itinerance.net/himalaya/himTreks.html
4 Funding & Fundraising
4.1 Association Partages, FRANCE
Bank Transfer into JVF-NEPAL’s Bank Account on 15th May 2015:
€2990.00 @115.05 = NRs 343,999.50
4.2 Gofundme Crowd Funding:
www.gofundme.com/medmobilisation
103 supporters made generous contribution online: £ 5428.00
19 supporters made generous contribution offline: £1549.00
4.3 Name List of online and offline Donors:
| Bir Prasad Gharti Magar | £50 | Gareth Bennett | £10 |
| Chris O’Neill [P] | £15 | Rajendra Pun | £50 |
| Ducros isabelle | £30 | Gill Downs [P] | £50 |
| Catherine Nock [P] | £10 | Valerie Filippi Vanhoutteghem | £20 |
| Hans Ucko | £100 | Caitlyn Downs[P] | £50 |
| Kirsty-Marie Jones | £10 | Harald Koepping Athanasopoulos [P] | £20 |
| Damien Giacchero | £650 | Anh-dao Jeannerat | £20 |
| Padma Linkha Magar | £200 | Nicolò D’Alconzo [P] | £40 |
| Mandy Orford | £10 | Bernie Williams | £10 |
| Claire Vivian | £15 | Caroline Rauter | £15 |
| Lori and Kevin Havard [P] | £25 | Bir Pun | £30 |
| Elaine Hutchinson | £20 | Stephen Waldie | £20 |
| Nick Jones | £50 | Cat Hills [P] | £50 |
| Sylvia Dickie | £20 | Anju & Francois Confort | £200 |
| Vera Manig [P] | £20 | Arabella Itani | £10 |
| Maharjan Ags Maharjan | £51 | Alison Woodhead [P] | £10 |
| Kuniko Tamura [P] | £20 | Durlabh Magar | £150 |
| Ayut sainju | £65 | Rumiko Utsu | £50 |
| Muna Bhusal [P] | £70 | Raj kumar Budha Magar | £20 |
| Clare Drake | £120 | Anikó Fekete [P] | £50 |
| Rhian Phillips [P] | £30 | Heli Vaterlaws | £20 |
| Charlene Fursland | £10 | Sara Gonzalez | £14 |
| Fiona Frank | £20 | Sandra Celada | £20 |
| Jen Rankin | £50 | Peter & Lyn n Rankin | £50 |
| Taraprasad Budha Magar | £10 | Vero Esc | £25 |
| Kishan Giri | £65 | Keshav Parajuli | £65 |
| Udhav Thapa Magar | £65 | Kishan Gurung | £65 |
| Riza Magar | £65 | Neil Gaskin | £50 |
| Birgit Heinzelmann | £40 | Tracy Jones [P] | £100 |
| Gareth Smith | £15 | Barbara Salata [P] | £100 |
| Annette Pelowski Dellemonico [P] | £25 | Ashwin Udupa [P] | £25 |
| Richard Boult | £50 | Simon Tootell [P] | £20 |
| Josephine Drazek | £20 | Subhadra Sunwar | £10 |
| Patricia Meagher [P] | £100 | Aniket Sardesai | £100 |
| PETRA MIKKOLAINEN-DEL AGUILA | £30 | Diana Toapanta | £10 |
| Maike Wolf | £100 | Kerrilee Hunter | £18 |
| Silvia Caldon & Nicola [P] | £100 | Karolina Skonieczna | £20 |
| Manoj Shah | £20 | Susan Glen | £25 |
| David Kirkpatrick | £300 | Rudra Paija | £25 |
| Fran Harry | £25 | Dil & Kamala Thapa | £100 |
| K Malla | £20 | Natasha Edmonds [P] | £30 |
| Vanessa Alonso [P] | £55 | APPUI & AAIP FRANCE | £52 |
| Najeeb Rehan Hazem | £248 | Elina Ghising | £48 |
| Smitha Urmese | £50 | Firoza Khanam | £62 |
| Usha KC (Contribution from Colleagues of 3 Cliffs Nursing Home) | £50 | SUDARSHAN N | £50 |
| Anikó Fekete [P] | £25 | Rebecca Le Cornu | £50 |
| Felicia Jahja | £50 | Clarisse Bachellier | £40 |
| Meri Ranta | £15 | Sarah Jones [P] | £50 |
| Michele Davies [P] | £30 | NICOLE PAREDES | £35 |
| Maria Hatzinikolaki | £70 | Richard Warr | £20 |
| Jo Parfitt | £10 | Anna Altenby | £30 |
| Peter Hodgins [P] | £30 | Jacques Bachellier | £200 |
| Wendu Mekonnen | £20 | Hetal & Ajay Chavda | £100 |
| Narayanan GL | £20 | Tom Sedgwick | £20 |
| Jeanette Cook | £20 | Claire Lindsay | £5 |
| Charli Beaumont | £5 | Meggie Kerry | £5 |
| Wends Powell-Thorpe | £25 | Naomi Gray ( On behalf of Residential Services, Swansea University) | £70 |
| Rose Williams (On behalf of ISS, Swansea University) | £390 | LETT CLAUDE ( On behalf of Dr PETER FOUILLANT) [P] | £143 |
| Sawani Pannila | £15 | Damien Giacchero | £210 |
| African People Solidarity, Swansea | £10 | Usha KC(This donation is from Usha’s colleagues in Three Cliffs Nursing and Care Home, Swansea | £16 |
| Hanife Serin | £20 | Usha KC (This donation was made from Usha’s colleagues and visitors of Three Cliffs Care & Nursing Home, Swansea) | £125 |
Total: £ 6977.00. Gofundme Administration/ Commission Fee on Online Donation: 103 x 7.4% + 20p per donation: £422.27 (Ref: http://www.gofundme.com/pricing/). Total after fee deduction: £ 6554.73 @154 = NRs 1,009,428.42
Grand Total: 3.1+ 3.2: NRs 1,353,427.92
5 Expenditure
5.1 Expenses by District
5.2 Expenses by Categories
5.3.3 Kalkingjor, Koshidekha VDC, KAVRE
17th– 19th May 2015
Team Members: 11
Number of Patients Treated: 175
| PURPOSE | DETAILS | DATE | AMT.(Rs.) |
| TRANSPORTATION | |||
| Fuel for Jay & Dorje’s Bike | 17/5/2015 | 2,600.00 | |
| Jeep Servicing | 19/5/2015 | 480.00 | |
| Jeep to Kavre | 21/5/2015 | 41,000.00 | |
| Taxi | 21/5/2015 | 100.00 | |
| Taxi by Jay | 1,000.00 | ||
| Kalingjor for helpers | 2000.00 | ||
| Driver | 1,000.00 | ||
| Sub Total | 48,180.00 | ||
| FOOD | |||
| Tea+ Breakfast | 17/5/2015 | 470.00 | |
| Desserts | 18/5/2015 | 1,935.00 | |
| Lunch | 19/5/2015 | 2,265.00 | |
| Snacks | 395.00 | ||
| Vegetable & Fruit | 23/5/2015 | 885.00 | |
| Water | 18/5/2015 | 170.00 | |
| Lunch in Kavre | 18/5/2015 | 1,050.00 | |
| Lunch/Dinner | 18/5/2015 | 1,800.00 | |
| Coffee | 17/5/2015 | 400.00 | |
| Sub Total | 9,370.00 | ||
| STATIONARY | |||
| Ncell Recharge | 500.00 | ||
| MEDICINE | |||
| Medicine | 17/5/2015 | 11,585.00 | |
| OTHERS | |||
| Battery | 17/5/2015 | 300.00 | |
| Grand Total | 69,935.00 | ||
6 Remaining Fund: NRs 405,873.92 [£2635.54/€3527.80/US$4058.73]
7 Next phase: Rebuilding
Our first phase of emergency response was completed on 25th May 2015. Rebuilding schools, health centres and community buildings will be our next mission. Right now, we have been working on to identify communities which are completely devastated, but also willing to go beyond just rebuilding houses. Once community in desperate need is identified, and plans in details is drawn, we will approach to you, like minded individuals, organisations and companies to work together again to support a communities which will be willing to build self-sustainable, in long term, communities. The remaining fund NRs 405,873.92 Paisa [£2635.54/€3527.80/ US$4058.73] from our first mission will be our seed money/fund for the upcoming rebuilding projects which, we are planning to start from beginning of December 2015.
Photos:
Dhading: http://www.fractionsofmoment.com/p613344612
Dolakha: http://www.fractionsofmoment.com/p547450011
Gorkha: http://www.fractionsofmoment.com/p1041961840
Kavrepalanchok: http://www.fractionsofmoment.com/p680844760
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14th October 2015
