4 min learnRasuwa (nepal)Up to date: Sep 7, 2026 09:38 AM IST
Within the corridors of the sunshine yellow-coloured constructing sit dozens of native residents, some ready for his or her month-to-month vaccine, one ready to get a knee damage checked out, one other to get the dentist’s assist with an aching tooth.
Welcome to Jibjibe Rural Hospital, located on a hilltop in Rasuwa, a district in Nepal on the border with China that was among the many hardest hit in the devastating flash floods that swept by means of the area late final month.
This neighbourhood major medical centre typically acts as the primary pitstop for close by residents with on a regular basis illnesses, vaccinations, routine checkups and minor accidents. However over the previous week-and-a-half, it has grow to be one thing extra necessary — a beacon of hope for these injured within the floods.
Simply because it was 11 years in the past within the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake, when readers of The Indian Specific stepped as much as supply a serving to hand, responding to this newspaper’s name — from schoolchildren dipping into their pocket cash to firms mobilising a day’s wages to retired Military personnel sharing their pension.
The Jibjibe Rural Hospital in Nepal’s Rasuwa district. (Specific photograph by Tashi Tobgyal)
Their donations, constituting The Indian Specific Residents’ Reduction Fund, went in the direction of the acquisition of vital medical gear price Nepal Rs 1.2 crore for hospitals within the districts of Sindhupalchok, Rasuwa and Nuwakot. The gear ranged from X-ray machines to toddler radiant heaters, operation theatre tables to surgical gear.
“On the day of the floods final month, we acquired 10 sufferers who had been injured because of the flood. They had been affected by bone fractures, head accidents and assortment of blood in lung cavities. We handled 5 of them right here, whereas the remaining had been referred to the district capital in Dhunche, from the place probably the most severe ones had been evacuated on a helicopter to Kathmandu,” stated Dr Nirajan Bhatta, Medical Superintendent, Jibjibe Rural Hospital.
Whereas simply 80-100 folks used to go to the hospital every day earlier than the floods struck, it now receives 100-130 sufferers every single day.
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The Trishuli Hydro Energy station lies in a destructed state and invisible within the photograph ( photograph reveals the spot of the water manner and the headgate) after the flash floods. (Specific Picture by Tashi Tobgyal)
Dr Bhatta says a lot of the incoming folks now want psychosocial remedy for post-traumatic stress dysfunction. “Simply yesterday, we obtained a affected person who was complaining of extreme ache and discomfort. Nonetheless, after I checked her vitals, all the pieces was regular. We discovered that the affected person’s father had died within the floods and he or she had eaten very much less within the days after it. This can be a clear case of acute stress,” he stated.
The first medical well being centre at the moment has a minor OT, an X-ray machine, three emergency beds, two statement beds, an OPD room, a dental OPD, a supply room and a lab. It’s transitioning to a much bigger hospital with 15 working beds. “The constructing is sort of full and will likely be handed over by the contractor in every week,” stated Harikrishan Debkota, chairman of the administration committee of the hospital.
“The donations by the Specific helped the centre so much. With surgical procedure gear and OT tables right here in Jibjibe, folks didn’t need to go to Dhunche or Kathmandu (over 90 km away) for each minor process,” Debkota stated.
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