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“...the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Volume 37 | Number 2 Article 8 December 2017 Himalayan Trauma: Administrative Thrombosis and Citizens’ Response Robert E. Beazley Cornell University, reb265(a)cornell.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya Recommended Citation Beazley, Robert E. (2017) "Himalayan Trauma: Administrative Thrombosis and Citizens’ Response," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 2, Article 8. Available at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/8 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Macalester College Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Perspectives is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons(2)Macalester College at DigitalCommons(2)Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies by an authorized...”
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“...like to thank Austin Lord and Sienna Craig for their review of the article and their many insightful comments and suggestions. He also would like to express a deep sense of gratitude and respect for all the volunteers^ doctors, and nurses he had the privilege to work with and for the support both monetary and spiritual that manifested as a result of social media virtual participant experiences from around the world. This perspectives is available in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: http:/ / digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/8...”
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“...institutional dysfunction. Further, he shows how 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...”
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“...had arrived in Nepal in April 2014 as a Cornell University Natural Resources Department PhD candidate on a Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. I set up my Kathmandu residence at Ram’s Rooms, near the Boudhanath Stupa, which I used as a base when not conducting social science research at my site in northern Rasuwa District near the Tibetan border. Within the first 45 days of the initial earthquake, Nepal experienced 553 aftershocks of local magnitude greater than 4.0 on the Richter scale (Adhikari et al. 2015), not to mention the major aftershocks greater than magnitude 4.0 and the main aftershock of May 12, 2015 (magnitude 7.3) which created a whole new round of destruction and chaos, especially in rural areas northeast of Kathmandu. The aftershocks continued and are still occurring presently in Nepal.1 Like Sudan, I was caught off-guard by the earthquakes, despite all of the ways that the possibility of natural disaster always looms large in Nepal. And, like Sudan...”
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“...favor of Bir Hospital. As post-earthquake days passed, sanitation became a big concern. At one point, more than 100 decomposing corpses were stacked behind the Trauma Center waiting to be iden- tified by a family member before they could be removed and cremated. Inside the Trauma Center, the staff could not keep up with the increasing number of patients. Again, institutional politics was to blame, as the staff had been hired exclusively by one of the administrators and, as in many institutions in Nepal, consisted mostly of his friends, relatives, family members, and those he owed favors to for helping him get his administrative posting. Most of these individuals were neither well trained nor able to cope with the situation in which they found themselves. Outside the front entrance of the Trauma Center, a col- lection center was set up for donations of food, water, clothing, and medical supplies. Some medications were provided free of charge, but as supplies dwindled many volunteers used their...”
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“...Nirmala, was more reserved but equally charming. The two became best friends and ‘star’ patients of Handicap International.4 Their stories were so compelling and their personalities so charismatic that they were featured in more than 20 media articles. Here is one example from a traditional media source, and an example of a powerful “victim” narrative that created a sense of virtual participant-experience for the consuming public: The sounds in the trauma ward of Bir Hospital two months after the Nepal earthquake were hard to take: The screams of patients suffering with fractured bones, or mourning for amputated limbs, as helpless family members attempted to comfort them. I couldn’t bring myself to take out my camera and point it at people here, so instead I tried to comfort them, too, and listen to their stories. I was drawn to a corner of the ward where a young girl missing a leg was smiling while doing physiothera- py. She was the only patient with a smile. That was the first time since the...”
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“...of supplying aid and resources to communities in earthquake-affected districts across their country. One example of such mobilization—and its intersections with the social media as well as diasporic Nepal—came in the form of the Nepalese American Nurses Association (NANA), a group based in New York City that, via Facebook, began collecting funds and medical supplies in Jackson Heights. In May 2015, NANA nurses flew to Nepal, where they not only volunteered at the Trauma Center but also hard hit areas outside the Kathmandu Valley. A NANA Facebook post describes the sense of urgency and frustra- tion that these nurses felt in reaction to the government’s lethargic and ineffective post-earthquake response. Njima [sic] Sherpa, a Nepal-born Manhattan nurse, said what’s desperately needed in Nepal is more medical trauma experts—and helicopters to reach remote villages in a landlocked nation topped by the forbidding Himalayas. Emergency funds from abroad must counter the political instability,...”
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“...questionnaire to document supply distribution. Practically speaking, this meant that families had to relive their experiences each time in order to be the recipients of aid. In the case of Nepal, despite the tremendous worldwide response, the competitive nature of large donor organi- zations and the country’s geographically and politically challenging landscape meant that significant gaps in response existed. A great deal of effort was directed at the delivery of immediate 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...”
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“...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 friends from different communities to cheer them on. During these camps, RCW also spent time...”
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“...2015, Carpenter 2015, Schorr and Warner 2015). The use of virtual mobility technologies—social media, smartphones, radios, and open source mapping—was instrumental in getting the word out, recruiting volunteers, raising funds, network- ing, and organizing logistics. The day of the earthquake Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook activated Safety Check on Facebook—a way by which individuals in Nepal could notify friends and family that they were safe. Within hours, a team of volunteers led by Mark Turin (University of British Columbia) translated this into Nepali, making the function many times more effective in Nepal. More than seven million people were marked safe and more than 150 million friends received notifications informing them that their friends were safe during this period (Thapa 2016: 567; Zuckerberg 2015; Wikipedia 2016). Many volunteers gave friends and family real time updates on Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and phone calls from the Trauma Center, creating a virtual participant-observer...”
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“...points, let us return, in closing, to the example of Tsering Tamang. Upon discharge from Bir Trauma Center, she was refereed to an impro- vised rehabilitation facility run by an organization called the Nepal Healthcare Equipment Development Foundation (NHEDF). Tellingly, this home, organized by volunteers and supported through informal networks, was a citizen response to non-functional and non-existent state insti- tutions. Despite the free treatment Tsering received at the Trauma Center, she did not have access to any state- funded rehabilitation center. When I last visited Tsering at the NHEDF rehabilitation center,13 14 she was all smiles, having taken her fist tentative steps on her newly healed leg. This moment represented the collective first steps of all earthquake-affected people in Nepal: tentative, hopeful, forward looking, and with a strong sense of determination. Robert E. Beazley (M.S. Natural Resources, Cornell University, 2013) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Natural Resources...”
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“...Sanjay Gupta Performs Surgery with Saw while Covering Nepal Earthquake. Telegraph. co.uk, 28/4/ 2015. nepal/11567529/CNNs-Sanjay-Gupta- performs-surgery-with-saw-while-covering-Nepal- earthquake.html> (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, T. Dahal, R. Hoste-Colomer, Y. Cano, M. Dandine, A. Guilhem, S. Merrer, P. Roudil, & L. Bollinger. 2015. The Aftershock Sequence of the 2015 April 25 Gorkha-Nepal Earthquake. Geophysics Journal International. 203(3)...”
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“...in Nepal. Cultural Anthropology-Hot Spots 1/10/ 2015. nepal> (Accessed on 6 June 2016). Sharma, Sharan Prakash. 2013. Politics and Corruption Mar Health Care in Nepal. The Lancet, 375(9731): 2063-2064. Shenhar, Gili, Rebecca Adamcheck, and Michael Hopmeier. 2016. The Need for International Search and Rescue (SAR) Teams during an Earthquake: Nepal Case Study. Development in Practice, 26(7): 949-953. Shrestha, Niranjan. 2016. Photographer’s View of Young Nepal Quake Victims’ Friendship. Associated Press, 22/04/2016. nepal-quake-victims-friendship> (Accessed on 6 June 2016). Sifferlin, Alexandra. 2015. Inside Nepal’s Next Challenge: Overflowing Hospitals. Time, 29/04/ 2015. nepal-earthquake-hospitals/> (Accessed on 6 June 2016). Sullivan, Tim and Niranjan Shrestha. 2016. Girls scarred by Nepal quake...”