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.
