Patale: Lending a Hand

Our service trek has arrived in Patale village. We actually reached here late yesterday afternoon. Today we have been busy seeing patients with our visiting doctor who's name is Lisa McMillan. We went to a local Buddhist temple and had a prayer ceremony early in the morning before the patient visiting started.

We have some bad news to report. Celia Rogers slipped on a muddy path yesterday. She injured her shoulder, perhaps her collar bone, her clavicle and she was helicopter evacuated today this morning at around 9:30 or 10:00. She's back in Kathmandu now and she's doing fine.

The rest of us plan to see patients again tomorrow. There's going to be a village meeting this afternoon and they are going to try to reach a decision about where to build the new health clinic and about training some more local people to be teachers and health care workers.

We plan to leave here on the 12th tomorrow afternoon and begin walking back to the village of Phaphlu where we will hopefully be able to fly out on the 15th of June. We're hoping for better weather.

The weather has been pretty cloudy and rainy so far. Although today it did clear up a bit fortunately for Celia so she could be helicopter evacuated.

Bye for now.

Dan