Our colleagues Prof. Christoph and Dr. Andrea Kosinski from Aachen visited Nepal the third time. This time, however, the journey began turbulently: Several aborted landing attempts in Kathmandu and an unplanned stopover in Bangladesh significantly delayed the arrival.
Nevertheless, it was possible to hold two stroke workshops in Bharatpur during the next two days. 100 nurses and young doctors took part, who impressed with great interest and in-depth knowledge.
The development in stroke care in Chitwan is very promising. Several specialised stroke units have now been set up in Bharatpur. Some teams are already working independently, in some cases without neurologists, and are doing important pioneering work. In Bharatpur Hospital, the government hospital, Dr. Pradesh and his wife Dr. Neha have even started to do thrombectomies. The close cooperation, the exchange of knowledge and the commitment of all those involved show how sustainable joint projects can be.
The two travellers love tea, so they fulfilled themselves a dream and went to Ilam, the Nepalese tea region for 3 days. They saw the east of Nepal with its gentle hills, where tea has been grown for centuries, visited a tea plantation and had a tea tasting with the fascination
variety of white, green and black tea.
Back in Kathmandu the colleagues attended the 1st Nepal German Congress in Neuroscience (NGCoiN). Internationally known Neurologists, Neuroradiologists and Neurosurgeons could be recruited for the conference. The first day took place at the Nepal Army Institute of Health Sciences. Prof. Kosinski gave two lectures on diseases of the cerebrospinal fluid circulation – embedded in an intensive, ten-hour scientific program. Nepalese colleagues like Dr. Raju Paudel and German colleagues like Ole Hensel from Nepalmed e.V. also held important talks in this special exchange on site and digitally.
The second day of the congress at the Grande International Hospital was primarily aimed at students, young doctors and nurses. Although the event took place on a Saturday – the only day off of the week – over 100 participants came. Dr. Andrea Kosinski spoke about the importance of well-trained nurses in stroke care and in the afternoon the couple held a workshop about NIHSS together.
The next morning, they left Nepal, early enough before the elections on March 5th, and returned home safely via Istanbul avoiding the war region around the gulf states.
