STAFF UPDATE
Our team in Nepal now includes 17 expatriates and 85 Nepalese staff.
Our physical therapists are working with the injured in hospitals in Kathmandu, Bidur, and Trisuli. It is estimated that 17,000 people sustained injuries as a result of the earthquake.
Staff are distributing 1,500 kits containing weather-proof tents and other essential non-food items in Nuwakot and Rassuwa districts.
In partnership with the World Food Program, Handicap International is managing a storage base for humanitarian aid in Kathmandu and will set up another base Dhunche by the end of the week.
A reception point for people with disabilities and injuries has been set up at Bir Hospital in Kathmandu.
Discharged patients are registered at the reception point so that staff can follow up with them and provide them with rehabilitation and other assistance. Four mobile rehabilitation teams are traveling throughout Kathmandu Valley and in Dhulikhel.
A hotline was created to allow people needing services to call Handicap International.
Staff will implement psychosocial support programs to help people suffering from mental trauma due to the earthquake.