After dispensing medical care and supplies in the aftermath of the April 25 earthquake in his native Nepal, Dr. Dinesh Subedi is focusing on rebuilding.
The disaster killed more than 9,000 people and left nearly 3 million homeless.
Subedi traveled with locally donated supplies and joined Nepali doctors from the United States to treat 25 or 30 people in each of several villages, usually hiking amid the flattened buildings and landslides.
He and his colleagues concluded that “people’s health will only be better once they have a good place to live. So until we can fix that, we can’t make them healthy,” said Subedi, an assistant professor of medicine at Upstate Medical University.
Also on this week’s show: information about croup, and the evolution of hospice and palliative care.
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