FHI Day 2

Many thanks to Mike Kear for the press release.  I think I can also put my photos in with a link - try clicking here for FHI Day 2.


We had a wonderful day - more induction at FHI and also visited the wonderful team at the local teaching hospital - Nepal's first to be established.


This evening we visited Pashuputinath and were honoured to be given permission to watch an open air cremation.  A truly life-memorable experience, and very normalising compared to the British Victorian habits of birth, death and mental illness being hidden behind closed doors....


I have discovered my partner here, Helen McIlveen, sits on the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS and she continues to impress me both personally and professionally.  I hope that our meeting is a link that we can use benefit patient services in GUM, HIV and Family Planning in the future, but also that we have a great time together in the next 5 weeks.  Certainly our skill set and life experiences seem to complement each others.


Tomorrow we should be off to Dhangadi on Buddha Air, fingers crossed, although these flight have a habit of being delayed or cancelled apparently.


Not missing home too badly and looking forward to finally arriving in and settling in the area of most need.  Hope to report more from there.  Tristan xx


PS - anyone fancy a holiday in Pokhara sometime?  Annapurna trek followed by some parahawking? More here!