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ISSUE 171 SUMMER 2015–2016 THE NORTH & WEST MELBOURNE NEWS IS PRODUCED BY VOLUNTEERS AT THE CENTRE Trek Medic from North Melbourne to Nepal Dr Hong Wu (right) and Dr Allan Au, president of Trek Medic Photo: Jim Weatherill Katrina Kincade-Sharkey Everest and medical camp in the Annapurna ists in Nepal. There’s no rehab there.” She looks areas, into 100 messages, phone calls and region, then a planned slower-paced scouting away, averting her glorious, lava-brown eyes. emails each day while coordinating reinforce- trip to Terai on 25 April changed everything. Somehow, road trauma or violent assault ment Trek Medic teams from Australia. EN thousand brutal deaths and at least Dubbed Gorkha from its epicentre’s region, around Melbourne seem less catastrophic with “Then there was critical collaboration with as many long-term injuries are the ago- the 25 April quake’s injury toll is now more leading local treatment and rehab facilities, yet Nepalese organisations and medical teams, nising physical measure of devastation than 23,000, its massive magnitude of 7.9MW those advantages are foreign concepts during where it turned into meeting some of the most T amazing and resilient people I will ever know, from Nepal’s earthquakes last April and May. deeming it meteorologically violent. Total third-world disasters. Another measure — that third-world na- construction and landscape damage was US$5 A keen traveller, Hong dedicated 12 months into making friends for life, into receiving help tion’s paltry aid allowance — was one sack of billion, which is about 25 per cent of Nepal’s to medical volunteering, research and travel, and hospitality from strangers, into sleeping rice and one blanket per family, yet no tents GDP. There was also substantial damage in 2015’s three months in Nepal following four in a friend’s front yard under the starry sky for shelter from coming monsoons and no regions of India, China and Bangladesh. weeks there in 2014. Her Melbourne Uni with his whole family and neighbourhood, into tools or materials to rebuild homes. The Gorkha quake was followed by another medical degree followed pathogenesis and camping in the Australian Embassy, into sitting Then there was the total lack of long-term centred in Dolakha on 26 April, while the main immunotherapy research studies investigating on the back of motorcycles, military trucks, utes, local buses and microbuses, into getting medical and psychological aid as Nepal has no aftershock was a major 7.3MW rupture near coeliac disease in a DQ2 transgenic mouse used to cold showers, dal bhat and camping rehabilitation facilities for traumatised bodies Everest’s base camp on 12 May that took 66 model. Those immunotherapy disciplines were mats. or minds. lives and injured another 1000 people. severely stressed during Nepal’s crisis. “We heard of many cases of major depres- These disaster images rarely vary for med- “A whirlwind of events was happening “I was on the ground there by day three and sion as soon as we began work, with PTSD icos: sheared bodies, ruptured souls — little every day, every hour, every few minutes,” even then there were many cases of PTSD very common. Bar alcohol, there’s no other changes, bar specific case diagnoses, map co- Dr Wu — “call me Hong” — reports, listing (post-traumatic stress disorder),” she reports, form of personal support, no counselling or ordinates and accessibility. images confronting even for medical pros who detailing superb efficiency: “My initial plan to psychological help anywhere in Nepal,” she Royal Melbourne Hospital gastroenterolo- repair shattered bodies daily. volunteer as a doctor wherever I could, some- frowns. So this credited young doctor used gist Tianhong (Hong) Wu, 28, has developed “I see beautiful girls with spinal cord injury how turned into leading a WHO (World Health her time and skills for victims’ survival and an acute disaster CV following her crucial resulting in permanent disability, and so many Organisation) and Ministry of Health-registered recovery. treatment of quake survivors. Already on site people with fractured, even severed limbs, all of Foreign Medical Team in one of the worst-af- for a Trek Medic fundraising trip to Mount which will need prostheses, none of which ex- fected districts, into scouting totally unfamiliar Continued on Page 7 COMMUNITY 3 • POLITICS & ENVIRONMENT 9 • THE CENTRE 10 • EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY 12 • SPORT & HEALTH 14 • TRAVEL & FOOD 16 • ARTS 17 2 NOTICEBOARD NOTICEBOARD North and NorthWest and Melbourne West Melbourne News News SUMMER SUMMER 2015–2016 2015–2016 NOTICEBOARD Please deliver contributions, letters Christmas Services in and feedback to: North and West Melbourne News North and West Melbourne 58 Errol Street, North Melbourne 3051 St Alban’s, Anglican Email: [email protected] 55 Melrose Street, North Melbourne Telephone: 9328 1126 Friday 25 December 10.00am Christmas Service The North and West Melbourne News Copy deadline for March 2016 edition: St James Old Cathedral, Anglican is a quarterly publication produced by Wednesday 10 February Corner King & Batman streets, West Melbourne volunteers from North and West Melbourne Advertisers: Wednesday 3 February (opposite Flagstaff Gardens) and the inner city. 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