Moving Medical Camp delivers baby!

March 2009, Rasuwa District, Nepal

Moving Medical Camp delivers baby and provides free healthcare to 350 people:

Field Report from founder, Scott MacLennan:

The woman has been in labor for two, maybe three days, the story isn’t clear. All that is clear is that two hours up the trail a woman is having a difficult time delivering a baby. It’s somewhat ironic that on this morning we had just toured a recently built birthing center. Recently built, but with no equipment and no staff. As we make our way up the trail we wonder if the woman would have come to the birthing center this time, with her fourth, or was it her fifth child? Again, the story, as being told to us by more than one local we meet on the way remains unclear.

We arrive in Tatopani near dusk. Tatopani in Nepali means “hot water.” This village boasts hot mineral baths that are considered a great source of healing to many. We came this way so we could relax and enjoy these waters. Right now however a very frightened Tamang woman is begging to be taken to the hospital and our midwife and pediatrician are busy trying to help her delivery a baby boy.

The boy will be named Daniel after the midwife’s late husband. He is born healthy and mother and son are both well the next day.

Click HERE to read the rest of the adventures from Newsletter # 27 ~