It took us an hour and a half to get to Balukhali Camp. On the way we passed paddy fields, harvested long ago with cows and goats grazing...

The Rohingya are an ethnic and religious minority in Myanmar, who are facing what the UN has termed “classic ethnic cleansing.” Despite...

I volunteered twice as a doctor during the Ebola outbreak of West Africa; once at the peak of the outbreak in Bong Ebola treatment Unit...

There has been no damage in the airport so my flight took off from the Tribhuvan International Airport with only a slight delay. I...

It would take at least two days or more to do assessment in the Dhading District and it has been raining there, it seems imperative that...

Shanti Nepal did not supply us with a list of VDCs to do further assessment so we could not proceed today. Instead we split up into two...

In the morning people walked around the stupa in a clockwise fashion continuously. It seemed that one could be swept away by the crowds...

Last night there was an aftershock at 10 pm which I did not feel. This morning about five while washing up there was a boom and the...

We rose early in the morning and split up into two teams, our team headed west to Dhading while the other headed east to Sindhupalchowk...

This morning we packed a medical bag just in case we had patients to see. One of the team members met up with a Nepali man who has been...

In the past few days we have traversed over a vast area of Nepal, mostly in remote parts recommended by the Ministry of Health but have...

I woke up around 5 am, the compound was already light. After a hasty breakfast, four of us with 2 interpreters packed a daypack and 2...

In the morning, we took a short walk uphill to the health center which was still standing but did not look stable enough to work in, that...

In the morning I went running in the mountain village and met many of the locals who lost their homes, no injuries that I could discern...

In the morning I took a run in the alleyways, already crowded with vendors selling fruits, vegetable, and stores selling all sorts of...

On 25th of April, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal. The death toll is now above 5,000 and rising. In the wake of this disaster,...

Today is the Feast of St. Kew, a little known Welsh saint, probably of the fifth century. She was the sister of a hermit called Docco...

Next week I am going to Sierra Leone to volunteer in the Ebola outbreak. Shortly after returning from Liberia after my stint of...

On Monday evening the snow started falling. I was thinking to myself how lucky I was not to worry about getting up early to shovel the...

Kindly I was re-invited to The White House Holiday Open House to go after my quarantine is over: Dear Dr. Lai, We are excited that you...