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On
March 17th this year, early morning Rewa Disability team went for the
Nubra valley (almost 110 km from Leh) field trip with 3 Physical Therapist
(Christoph and Jule- volunteers from Germany and Chokla- a local Physical
Therapist) and 2 Physio aid (Norboo and Bilkis), the team has to assess
and treat patients in 5 different villages of Nubra valley, where each
villages are quite far from each other so they had to plan a 3 day field
trip. They reached Chamshen village on the same day, first place where
they had 1 patient to treat, the patient namely- Tsering Dorjay (suffering
from Paraplegia due to traumatic spine injury).
Our
Team
The
second village was Yulkham village where they had 1 patient to treat
namely - Thundup Gyaltson (suffering from Cerebral Palsy), from Yulkham
the team went to Sumur village where they had lunch and then went to
the house in the same village to treat the patient namely - Tsering
Dorjay (traumatic spine injury) after treating that patient the team
left for Diskit (their stay point in Nubra valley) to spent the night.
Motivated
Tsering Dorjey
Next
morning they left for Bokdang village where the team split into 2 groups
so they can simultaneously treat 2 patients, team A (Jule, Norboo and
Bilkis) treated a patient namely - Shabir Ali (with a foot deformity),
and team B (Christoph and Chokla) treated a patient namely - Mohammad
(suffering from Hemiplegia).
In Bokdang village the team got to know about a family with 2 disabled
children, so they went to that house to assess and treat them both,
when the team entered to that house to introduce themselves, on acceptance
of the children mother, physical therapist (Christoph, Jule and Chokla)
started to assess the children but few seconds later 13 to 15 women
came into that house just to see what they were doing and they wont
let the children's mother answer when she was asked question regarding
the children, the team tried hard enough to let them out so they get
enough space and proper environment to asses the children but failed.
Some how they were able to assess the Children, they tried but the environment
was so hasty they could not help but just return with a hope that next
time they will surely be able to do the proper treatment and assessment
of the children.
Making
of a soft splint - Norbu is very good at it
The
next was village Hunder where they had 1 patient namely - Stanzin (suffering
from an undiagnosed disease, as they never went to any hospital where
they could get the proper medical assessment) though the team did asked
them before to go to a hospital but in vain, the team did whatever they
thought be good for the patient apart from treatment, from there the
team went back to Diskit village where they had 1 last patient namely
- Tsering Angmo (with knock knee). The team then spent the night to
leave back for Leh next morning, but unfortunately they could not due
to snowfall so they had to spend another day there and at last they
could return to Leh the next day.
On
top: our patient in school - below: not many people from the West had
visited this area
A
new family with patients - curious villagers come to see whats going
on
Therapie
with Cricket
Snow
in Nubra Valley - very beautiful, very cold
Snowchains
had to be put on
Report
from Stanzin Chockla, Physiotherapist
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