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Health services resume in Khudunabari camp

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 02:09 AM PDT

A meeting of officials of AMDA Nepal, camp management committee and family of the patient reached an agreement to resumes all medical services in the camp.

“Now we are working smoothly as before,” Dr Madhurima Bhadra, Program Manager of Bhutanese Refugee Primary Health Care Project (BR-PHCP) told Bhutan News Service, Wednesday.

According to camp secretary, Bhanu Dhungana, they were able to clear the chaos that resulted due to the death of a patient inside the camp. “Let me not elaborate it further since the case has been settled,” he added.

Except emergency, all health services in Khudunabari camp were halted last week following the death of Ganga Tiwari, 18.

File photo :AMDA Nepal Health Center of Beldangi-II

File photo :AMDA Nepal Health Center of Beldangi-II

Relatives and family of late Tiwari had claimed that she died due to negligence of the AMDA doctor deployed in the camp since she delayed her referral to Bhadrapur on time.

However, Dr Bhadra made it clear that it was a false allegation that the camp imposed on the BR-PHCP.

“Three youths manhandled our staff,” she said in a radio interview to Saranarthi Sarokar last Saturday. She also expressed that whole AMDA team in the project was saddened since it could not save the young patient.

“I share my condolence to Tiwari family and the whole Bhutanese community since they lost their daughter,” Dr Bhadra told.

“My doctor tried her best to save the patient,” she said, “But, no efforts proved fruitful.”

It was learnt that the alleged trio who manhandled the doctor admitted their mistake to resume all services in the camp.

According to Dr Bhadra, the hospital’s local staff decided not to attend their offices in the camp citing lack of security in their jobs. “Indeed, it was our compulsion to opt such a decision.”

Started from January 2001 as an implementing partner of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, AMDA uses Mechi Zonal Hospital, Bhadrapur and AMDA Hospital, Damak as its primary referral center :  

By Vidhyapati Mishra, Kathmandu with inputs from Tilak Niraula, Jhapa.

Three fall in police net for stealing solar bulbs

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:11 AM PDT

A police squad from Damak Police Office, acting on a special tip-off, arrested at least three Bhutanese from Beldangi-I camp for stealing solar lamps from various camps, Tuesday evening.

The detainees were identified as Dilip Rai and Santosh Rai from sector C-2, 145 and Mangal Singh Gurung of C-2, 94/95.

Police became successful in arresting the trio when the squad and camp management committee traced out a high voltage solar lamp, fixed at maternity ward of in the camp health center, in Illam district.

They sold it to a Mon Maya Karki, a local in the district, and charged Rs 10,500, police informed Bhutan News Service.

According to Lutheran World Federation Program Officer, Ganga Dhar Chaudhary, more than dozen of such bulbs and their batteries have gone missing from various camps.

“The loss incurred so far accommodates as high as Rs 150,000,” he said adding, ” No such bulbs of such quality are available in Nepali market.”

A Japanese NGO donated those bulbs to camps through LWF that fixed them at various public places like hospitals, schools, camp offices and extremely crowded sectors, among others.

LWF Nepal is lodging a complaint against the trio asking them to bring into book through criminal acts of Nepal, Chaudhary said : BNS/Arjun Pradhan, Beldangi-I. Comment us at editor [at] bhutannewsservice.com