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“...these two types of media played a critical role in facilitating communication between grassroots aid initiatives and earthquake affected people and their families and friends, not only in Kathmandu but also in neglected mountainous areas as well. The author uses a personal, reflexive approach to help situate the distinct experiences of earthquake affected people including trauma patients, people with disabilities, and volunteer aid workers. Keywords: Nepal, earthquake, trauma, citizens' response, health care, disaster aid and relief. Introduction Sudan Gurung arrived by scooter at the Bir National Trauma Center on April 25, 2015, carrying a man with an injured leg. The entrance to the Trauma Center was littered with injured people waiting for help. In the wake of the 7.8 earthquake that occurred earlier that day, the already overloaded healthcare system was itself in crit- ical condition (HPS 2015; Pandey 2016; Sifferlin 2015; Thomas 2015). While Sudan was at the Trauma Center, he witnessed...”
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“...seen it. They need more resources, they need more personnel here right now, and they’re expecting many more patients as these rescue operations go on. They’re barely able to keep up right now. It’s part of the reason they asked me [to help]; I think they’re asking anybody to try to pitch in. (Gupta quoted in Akkoc 2015) Despite its at times intrusive, insensitive, voyeuristic, and exploitive nature, the media coverage of the earthquake did the get the word out. As is often the case in Nepali health care settings, patient privacy was neither a concern nor, at times, an option. And yet in some cases patients were put in an awkward position of grabbing their 15 minutes of fame at a moment of crisis. We are left asking how to balance these elements with the good they did by drawing global attention to Nepal. Amputation, Disability, and'Celebrity Victims' The number of patients at the Trauma Center that had sustained injuries that required amputation was stagger- ing. Many of these were children...”
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“...material aid, while the need for psychological aid and counseling was largely overlooked by the government in the first few months following the earthquakes (Bhusal 2015; Kathmandu Post 2015a, 2015b; Maharjan 2015). Mental Health and Emotional Support Mental health has been a chronically underdeveloped and underfunded part of the Nepal healthcare system (WHO 2016; WHO-AIMS 2006). As Seale-Feldman and Upadhaya (2015: para. 4) explain: Nepali policymakers and international donors see this moment as an opportunity to strengthen what has his- torically been a weak mental health system, where less than 1 percent of the government’s total health budget has been allocated to mental health and there is one practicing psychiatrist per million people. (WHO and Ministry of Health and Population Nepal 2006). This gap was largely filled by NGOs, Buddhist monasteries (Lions Roar Staff 2015), and other grassroots initiatives. However, these efforts were largely unreported by the media.10 One novel approach...”
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“...numerous cricket awards even though she was only 24 when I first met her in early April 2015. After telling her about my volunteer work with I 2 We she and others from RCW came to the Trauma Center to help.13 RCW brought encouragement and donations to patients in the Trauma Center, and offered to teach them how to play cricket after their recovery. I could see evidence of this sort of positive impact through RCW’s in Nepal’s post-earthquake moment, particularly in relation to mental and emotional health. I had begun working with RCW in the context of my research on gender and mobility in Nepal. After recon- necting with them in the Trauma Center, I helped RCW organize a series of cricket training camps in communities where I had conducted research in Nuwakot and Rasuwa, and at camps for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Nuwakot and Bhaktapur. These cricket camps helped young people deal with the psychological trauma of the disaster and its aftershocks, bringing together family members and...”
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“...the ways that different kinds of citizen and volunteer responses to the 2015 earthquake helped fill gaps created by institutional dysfunction, and how social media and more traditional forms of media played crucial roles in these efforts. The government would be wise to study these grassroots responses as a model for rebuilding and strengthening the state’s disaster response framework and institutions. My time at the Trauma Center also highlighted the state of health care in Nepal, revealing specific problem areas such as mental health care and services for persons with dis- abilities (see Acharya et al. 2016; Maru et al 2016; Sharma 2013). To its credit, the Bir Trauma Center provided free services to any earthquake affected patient, filling a vital gap left by other expensive private hospitals. A majority of Bir Trauma Center’s patients came from traditionally poor mountainous areas of Nepal. And yet, the quality of healthcare was extremely uneven. High quality medical care typically remains...”
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“...References ACPMH. 2013. Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder & Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Phoenix: Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Akkoc, Razvue. 2015. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta Performs Surgery with Saw while Covering Nepal Earthquake. Telegraph. co.uk, 28/4/ 2015. (Accessed on 25 September 2015). Acharya, Bibhav, Jasmine Tenpa, Poshan Thapa, Bikash Gauchan, David Citrin, & Maria Ekstrand. 2016. Recommendations from Primary Care Providers for Integrating Mental Health in a Primary Care System in Rural Nepal. BMC Health Services Research 16: 492. Adey, Peter. 2006. if Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (im)mobilities. Mobilities 1(1): 75-94. Adhikari, L.B., U.P. Gautam, B.P. Koirala, M. Bhattarai, T. Kandel, R.M. Gupta, C. Timsina, N. Maharjan, K. Maharjan,...”
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“...2015. The April Earthquake Wrecked a Third of Nepal’s Already Miserable Healthcare Facilities. qz.com, 15/06/ 2015. (Accessed 3 April 2016). WHO. 2016. One Year Post-quake, Nepal's Health Workforce Remains Focused, Committed. World Health Organization. searo.who.int, 2016. (Accessed 3 December 2016). WHO- AIMS. 2006. A Report of the Assessment of the Mental Health System in Nepal using the World Health Organization - Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS). Kathmandu: WHO and Ministry of Health Nepal. 54 HIMALAYA Fall2017...”