Margherita (Margo) Scott from the Clayton Morning Rotary Club presented the story of her journey to Nepal in the days following the horrible earthquake in April this year.
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Margherita Scott (Margo)
RN, RDCS
Member of Clayton Morning
Rotary International Club
District 7710
Since February 2015
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Rotary International Regional
Convention – New Bern, NC
April 24-26, 2015
Leigh Hudson
Chair of District Disaster Relief Committee
Kelly Norman
Public Relations Chair
(My sponsor)
Cami Trucone
International Exchange Student
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At Rotary International Regional Convention as a
vendor selling Children’s vitamin to fund my
Mission to Nepal.
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Sunday morning headline news
April 25, 2015 (a week before mission date)
7.8 earthquake devastates Kathmandu, Nepal
Early estimate of 8,000 lives lost
More than 16,000 suffered initial injury
More chronic medical consequences will
Continue to emerge in the days and
Weeks to follow
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Sunday Evening
Decision was made to proceed
Now a humanitarian/relief mission
Out of initial CardioStart team of
35 members, 21 volunteers commit
to support the medical mission
following the first earthquake
disaster
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Thursday Morning
Clayton Morning Rotary Meeting
Demonstrating how to use
Personal water filtration system
Receiving from Club President
John Long the Clayton Rotary
Banner to exchange with
Nepal Rotary Club
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Thursday
Wonderful members of Clayton Morning
Rotary International showering me with
blessings, survival tips and donations
to sustain me during my mission in
Nepal.
REI Half Dome tent purchased with
money donated by Rotary 7710 along
with sleeping bag, air mattress, water
filtration system, solar powered cell
charger, boots, cargo pants and other
survival supplies, which I used and
donated at end of mission to local
doctors who lost their home.
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Cash
Passport
Whistle
Road ID Bracelet
On me at all times
Change of clothes
Food for one day
Shoes
Inside backpack
Always at bedside
Emergency Preparedness – Thank you Rex and Jim!
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On my way to Nepal with money and supplies provided by
Rotary at the club and district level
Friday, May 1
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Sunday Morning
2nd day in Kathmandu
Tour of the city while waiting
For remainder of CardioStart
members
15 y/o boy found alive after 5
days under the rubble
Recovering in Israeli Army Field
Hospital ICU
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Four-month-old baby found alive
Recovering in Israeli Army Field Hospital
Pediatric Intensive Care
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Sunday Evening. Team is complete.
On the way to Dhulikhel by bus
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Front of Dhulikhel Hospital
Sanjey – Dhulikhel Cardiologist
My working companion for several days
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Many people refuse to go home. They feel secure at the hospital
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Many injured with external fixation patiently awaiting their turn for surgery
giving precedence to more serious and longer cases
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Rescue begins for people in isolated villages.
People are now starving to death or dying from
dehydration or contaminated water related illnesses
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CardioStart Doctors helping with surgery whenever they can
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German Neurosurgical team helping Nepal by
performing difficult and long surgery
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Learning about the engineering department
Developing a prototype for temporary shelters
made of a metal frame, bamboo and sand
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Organizing supplies from the two 40-foot containers
shipped earlier in the Spring
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Cath Lab equipment donated
by Australia Rotary Club
Water filtration system donated
by Germany Rotary Club
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Health Post in Chattre Deurali – day of Second earthquake with worse
damage making it inhabitable. Our sleeping quarters.
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Mending a second degree burn
on a two-year-old boy
Trying to do what we can at
Health Post in Chattre Deurali
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Suturing a facial laceration on a
girl who was hurt while helping
her father clean up debris
This elderly man was found
to have gallbladder stones
and was referred to the
hospital for surgery
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Entertaining the children and the locals. Curious and
hopeful about what we could do for them.
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Food purchased with
Rotary money arrives
at Chattre Deurali
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Children’s Vitamins – My personal contribution to children of Nepal
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The boots that got
Me everywhere
Had to stay there…
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Expenses Recap:
REI (Camping/outdoor supplies used and
left with the locals) $ 919.65
Wallgreens (OTC medicatoins, extra
battery chargers for cells) $ 89.61
Food purchased in Nepal $ 500.00
Post Office to mail solar cell charges $ 24.05
Total $ 1,533.31
$2,000.00 from Rotary
Balance of $466.69 returned to Rotary on June 29, 2015
THANK YOU ROTARY INTERNATIONAL