
Aban Gautam, a 25-year-old medical doctor and founder of the nonprofit Mountain Heart Nepal, led a team of five doctors and two nurses to the flood-hit areas. The team ran health camps in over a dozen villages across three districts in eastern Nepal. “We examined and treated more than 2000 people,” said Gautam, in the process providing life-saving services to communities who suffer most from extreme weather events like this. He said his team contacted the Department of Epidemiology in Kathmandu and liaised with district health offices. Read more at www.recordnepal.com/wire/features/nepal-flood-volunteers-terai-madhes/