Shashank Aggarwal is 25 years old and runs an apparel manufacturing and export unit in Kathmandu. For the last five days, he’s been out in the field with his friend Karan Agrawal who was coming back from a game of cricket when the earthquake hit. Together, they have been volunteering at hospitals and medical camps set up to bring relief to those who live far from the city.
We’ll worry about rebuilding later. We need to retrieve all the bodies first and treat those who’ve been injured.
- Karan & Shashank
They tell us how the kind of medical facilities required are simply impossible to deliver in the difficult to navigate terrain.
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