(Times of Israel) Melanie Lidman - The entire field clinic for a team of Israeli and Nepali doctors setting up temporary facilities in remote mountain villages across Nepal fits into ten large orange backpacks and three duffel bags. The medical team from IsraAID includes ten doctors, nurses, and midwives who left their jobs in Israel for two weeks to volunteer in Nepal. IsraAID's medical team set out for the hard-hit Sidhulpalchowk district immediately upon landing in Nepal on May 2, arriving after a seven-hour drive from Kathmandu and then a three-hour walk. As word spread of the mobile clinic, crowds began to arrive. People came with injuries wrapped in rags, limbs frozen at strange angles, and infections that had festered. Elderly people hobbled in with makeshift crutches. A lot of creativity was required as doctors came up against logistical and cultural challenges. Many of the villagers were illiterate, so writing out instructions for how to take medicine was useless. Nepali numbers are also different from Roman numerals. To solve this problem, doctors gave out pictorial prescriptions, a line with circles to illustrate how many times the pill should be taken each day.
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