Living Under the Threat of Earthquakes by Jörn H. Kruhl Rameshwar Adhikari & Uwe E. Dorka

Author:Jörn H. Kruhl, Rameshwar Adhikari & Uwe E. Dorka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Fig. 7International group of healthcare professionals, Lukla Airport, April 26, 2015

Fig. 8Treatment of an EBC victim EBC by staff from PLNN Hospital (top) and Transport of an EBC victim to PLNN Hospital by local people, army and police (bottom), Lukla April 26, 2015

Only two people stayed in Lukla and received treatment in an adjacent intact house. A follow-up on all the patients was difficult because of a lack of coordination in Kathmandu airport. Patients were transported to different hospitals in the capital, where treatment was hard to obtain because of overwhelming numbers of patients. Moreover, the expedition organizations had trouble to find their collaborators and clients in the different hospitals. Later we heard that the two severely injured patients who were transported to Kathmandu with highest priority, did not survive because of a subsequent lack of appropriate medical treatment.

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