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In Nepal saturday is a day off, so we decided to go on an adventure. On our trip to Nepal we are 17 engineers, who are sent to different places in the country. Some are placed in the east and some are placed (as us) in the west. Normally we live in a pretty large city called Gorkha, but today we visited two of our friends in the very remote village of Amppipal! Amppipal lies around two ours away from nearest 'big city', the population is around one hundred and there is no such thing as WIFI or turists. To get there we had to take three busses and walk for about 1.5 hours up the mountain! There is not much happening in Amppipal and most of the people have never left the mountain but woaw they have a beautiful view. We went on a small trek, that let us to 360 degree views of the hill sides underneath Amppipal and gave us breathtaking moments.

For the past three weeks my finnish partner, Tekla, and I have worked in Gorkha City at Gorkha District Hospital. During the weeks we have been fixing medical equipment for Engineering World Health (EWH) DTU. With us we have our Nepali biomedical engineer, Shramik, who is excellent at understanding the things here in Nepal (and at Nepali hospitals) that might be very foreign to us. And that is a lot… The hospital in Gorkha is very different from the hospitals back home. There are ofcourse still doctors, nurses, patients, medicine, the OT,  the ER, the OPD, medical equipment etc. But still it is really far from what we know. When we arrived at the hospital, we made an inventory list of all the equipment at the hospital. Here we found out, they have around 200 pieces of equipment, but only 104 pieces in use… The equipment that is not in use is said to be broken.. We saw we had a lot of work to do, and have been working hard ever since. At the moment we have fixed 34 pieces of equipment and are still busy as ever. 

It has now been about one month since I left Denmark to travel around the globe to the beautiful country of Nepal! During this month I have had ten days of Nepali training, seen countless numbers of unbelievable temples, driven in the most wonderful surroundings and met the sweetest people. Nepal is a country in Asia, where everyday life goes the way it goes. The day today is most likely as the day yesterday, and will most likely be as the day tommorow. Here you can not do without a head lamp and an umbrella, because you do not know when there will be the next power cut or the biggest shower of rain seen in a long time!