Liverpool Fundraising Dinner: 12 February

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Health Exchange Nepal (HExN) is holding its first fundraising dinner of 2017 in Liverpool, on Sunday 12 February.

Starting at 3pm, the event will include culture activities including dancing/singing and a buffet of Nepalese/Indian food, plus raffles and an auction.

Tickets for this fun, informal event are £25, with all profits going directly to HExN to help its work of providing clinical and educational support in Nepal, improving the lives of thousands of people each year.

The earthquakes which hit Nepal in 2015 have had a long-lasting effect beyond the loss of lives and permanent injuries caused to so many. Tourism, a vital source of income for Nepal, has dipped sharply.

The fundraising dinner, at the New Derry Social Club in Everton, will also include a short update on progress in Nepal. The event is supported by the Nepalese Community in Liverpool Group.

Tickets are by donation of £25 minimum – please book these via this link so that HExN can benefit from gift aid - https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/liverpool. The page includes a full programme and location details.

While we already have some raffle prizes, you are still encouraged to bring gifts, prizes, liquors, wine etc for the auction & raffle on the day. These would be very much appreciated. 

We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool at our charity fundraiser. Parking is available at the site (Post code L5 0QW),

HExN colleagues run a series of successful workshops in Kathamndu

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The two day ultrasound anaesthesia course at Kirtipur, led by Dr Aryal and Dr Brodbeck, included two practical sessions in ICU and Theatres, and an additional ultrasound of lung, heart and abdomen. 

An enthusiastic group of eleven young doctors attended the workshop, most of whom had some ultrasound experience, and the feedback was excellent.

The colorectal course facilitated by Lancashire Teaching Hospital Consultant Patrick Keating included lectures in the morning and a theatre case video linked into the lecture room in the afternoon. 

Ultrasound anaesthesia course starts at Kirtipur hospital

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James Paget University Hospital's General Surgeon Dr Kamal Aryal and Dr Andreas Brodbeck, Consultant in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, launched the Health Exchange Nepal comprehensive ultrasound regional anaesthesia course jointly with PHECT hospital Kirtipur on Tuesday 15 November. 

Overview to follow.

Supporting the Parents Care Home in Nepal

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Health Exchange Nepal is delighted to approve a fund to support the operation and management of Parents Care Home in Kathmandu.

The Parents Care Home is a non-governmental organisation that has provided a home for 10-15 vulnerable elderly and disabled people for the last five years.

The fund of £2500.00 will be used for day to day operation of the care home including the provision of food, clothes, health care and other general activities.

To find out more about Parents Care Home, visit the Facebook page. 

Anaesthesia Pain and Critical Care Medicine (CURRENT 2016) Refresher Course in Kathmandu

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Health Exchange Nepal (UK) organised a refresher course in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) on 26 August 2016 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr Shambhu Acharya took the responsibility of forming an international faculty and the rest of the faculty members were from TUTH for this meeting. It was an opportunity as well as a challenge to find the experts in the relevant fields who were willing to go to Nepal during a holiday season on a voluntary basis.

Three consultant anaesthetists from Aintree (Dr Shambhu Acharya, Dr Raj Nagaraja and Dr Shetty) and Dr Jagadish Agrawal from Wirral Hospitals and one paediatrician Dr Sujay from United Arab Emirates kindly agreed to be the faculty members to go to Nepal.

A range of topics were included in the course. The international faculty covered the following topics:

  • Anaphylaxis: Dr Shambhu Acharya
  • Complications of regional anaesthesia: Dr Ravish Shetty
  • Pregnancy induced hypertension: Dr Jagadish Agrawal
  • Neonatal resuscitation: Dr N Sujay
  • Critical appraisal of scientific papers: Dr Raj Nagaraja
  • Fluid management in trauma patients: Dr Raj Nagaraja

There were many challenges for our faculty as Nepal lacks many resources and some drugs are not available there and some alternatives were to be found that could be used in Nepal. 

Photo (Left to Right):
Dr Gentle Shrestha, Dr Diptesh Aryal (Co-ordinator for the course in Nepal), Dr Nagaraja, Prof Bimal Kumar Sinha (Acting Dean, Institute of Medicine), Dr Acharya, Prof Marhatta (HoD of Anaesthesia, TUTH), Dr Anil Shrestha

Airway Management Workshop, BPKIHS, 23rd August 2016

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The Airway Management Workshop was organized by the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, BPKIHS in collaboration with Health Exchange Nepal, UK on 23rd August 2016.

The workshop was organized with the objectives to prepare and apply principles of advanced airway management including the use of latest airway devices. The inaugural ceremony started at 8:30 am.  The Vice Chancellor, Hospital Director, Registrar, Dean Academics/ Examinations, Deputy Director, Dr. Shambhu Acharya as a resource person were invited in the ceremony. The Vice chancellor appreciated the workshop and also promised to help the department in the future for any academic endeavor. Dr. Shambhu Acharya who also represented Health Exchange Nepal, UK, promised to continue helping the department as before. 

A total of 44 doctors attended the workshop. Thirty six attended the workshop as participants. Twenty-four participants were from BPKIHS while twelve participants were from different hospitals of the Eastern Nepal including Nobel Medical College, Birat Medical College and from different hospitals from Birtamod. Eight faculties attended the workshop as resource persons. 

The 4 topics included in the workshop were
•    Airway equipments and management of difficult airway
•    Awake intubation techniques
•    Fiberoptic intubation
•    Surgical Airway

The participants both from the BPKIHS and from outside BPKIHS were very much pleased to have hands-on training using various equipment that they had only read on their books. They requested the organizers for organizing similar training in the future also.

Prof Balkrishna Bhattarai
Head of Department of Anaesthesiology, BPKIHS, Dharan

HExN Charity Dinner - All Welcome

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Date and venue: 11th October 2016 from 6:00 - 9:30pm at the Cuerden Suite at The Ley Inn, Chorley, PR6 7EU.

Health Exchange Nepal (UK) invites you to a fundraising charity dinner to support HExN Nepal activities. Activities include games, a raffle and charity auction, and a slide show highlighting the last twelve months.

Drinks start from 6:00pm with dinner served at 7:30pm.

The event is free but all donations to our My Donate page are gratefully received.

You are encouraged to bring gifts, prizes, liquors, wine etc for the auction & raffle.

Please RSVP to Jeremy Ward at jeremy.ward@lthtr.nhs.uk or Satyan Rajbhandari at Satyan.rajbhandari@lthtr.nhs.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!