Transcript of Clayton Rotarian Serves in Nepal
- 1. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015
- 2. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Margherita Scott (Margo) RN,
RDCS Member of Clayton Morning Rotary International Club District
7710 Since February 2015
- 3. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Founded in 1987 55 Missions
27 Countries
- 4. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Cardiac Ultrasound- Adults
and Pediatrics
- 5. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Circulating Nurse In
Operating Theater
- 6. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Teaching Echocardiography to
Medical Students
- 7. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Mission to Nepal announced in
January 2015
- 8. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 9. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 At Rotary International
Regional Convention as a vendor selling Childrens vitamin to fund
my Mission to Nepal.
- 10. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 11. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 12. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Terri Black Ian Rumbles
- 13. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 John Long, Clayton Morning
Rotary President Monday Morning
- 14. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 The Many Cogs of Rotary
International Tuesday Morning
- 15. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Matthew Kane District
Governor 2014-2015 Leigh Hudson Chair of District Disaster Relief
Committee Wednesday Morning
- 16. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 First Aid supplies donated
by Eastern Carolina Medical Center in Benson Wednesday
- 17. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Hardware supplies donated by
Leigh Hudson Wednesday
- 18. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Uniforms donated by fellow
nurses Wednesday
- 19. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 20. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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.
- 21. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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!
- 22. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 On my way to Nepal with
money and supplies provided by Rotary at the club and district
level Friday, May 1
- 23. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 First day in Kathmandu May
2
- 24. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 People praying and cleaning
in Kathmandu
- 25. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 26. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Four-month-old baby found
alive Recovering in Israeli Army Field Hospital Pediatric Intensive
Care
- 27. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Sunday Evening. Team is
complete. On the way to Dhulikhel by bus
- 28. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Front of Dhulikhel Hospital
Sanjey Dhulikhel Cardiologist My working companion for several
days
- 29. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Many people refuse to go
home. They feel secure at the hospital
- 30. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Many injured with external
fixation patiently awaiting their turn for surgery giving
precedence to more serious and longer cases
- 31. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Rescue begins for people in
isolated villages. People are now starving to death or dying from
dehydration or contaminated water related illnesses
- 32. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 CardioStart Doctors helping
with surgery whenever they can
- 33. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 German Neurosurgical team
helping Nepal by performing difficult and long surgery
- 34. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Making friends and memories
with the locals
- 35. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Field trip to Kathmandu
University
- 36. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Learning about the
engineering department Developing a prototype for temporary
shelters made of a metal frame, bamboo and sand
- 37. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Organizing supplies from the
two 40-foot containers shipped earlier in the Spring
- 38. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Cath Lab equipment donated
by Australia Rotary Club Water filtration system donated by Germany
Rotary Club
- 39. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Meeting members of Dhulikhel
Rotary Club
- 40. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Preparing to go to outreach
clinic in Chattre Deurali
- 41. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015
- 42. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Health Post in Chattre
Deurali 1st floor
- 43. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Health Post in Chattre
Deurali day of Second earthquake with worse damage making it
inhabitable. Our sleeping quarters.
- 44. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Mending a second degree burn
on a two-year-old boy Trying to do what we can at Health Post in
Chattre Deurali
- 45. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 46. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Entertaining the children
and the locals. Curious and hopeful about what we could do for
them.
- 47. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Food purchased with Rotary
money arrives at Chattre Deurali
- 48. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Storing donated supplies For
Monsoon Season
- 49. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Trying to find a section of
flat land to build the tents to Serve as temporary school
- 50. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 We had to go with their
soccer field
- 51. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 After careful planning and
two days of assembling
- 52. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Kids are happy to have a
temporary school
- 53. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 Childrens Vitamins My
personal contribution to children of Nepal
- 54. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 The boots that got Me
everywhere Had to stay there
- 55. Clayton Rotary Aids Nepal 2015 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
- 56. Nepal Thanks Rotary International