Helping Remote Area Medical get clearance to work

5 May 2015

Medical team members in uniform sit and stand around a hall with kit bags at their feet, one addressing the room.

Helping RAM ( Remote Area Medical ) people get official approval to provide relief work. At the conference hall of Ministry of Health, a meeting of all foreign doctors and medical people being briefed and assigned 'places' to go help. For next two weeks we are told that WHO will have the hall will serve as Control Room of all medical rescue missions.

RAM volunteers have been assigned two villages in Sindhuplachowk district - Piskar and Dhaskun.

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Two men in caps sit in a row of conference chairs working on laptops balanced on their knees.

A crowded conference hall seen from the back, delegates at tables facing a projector screen with sheets of paper taped along the wall.

Delegates in medical and military uniforms crowd together in a hall, one wearing a jacket marked in Chinese characters.

Delegates stand in a panelled meeting room, several in high visibility uniforms, facing the front of the hall.

A projected slide reading Welcome to FMT Coordination meeting, listing the chairman and coordinators, above rows of seated delegates.

A man in a cap sits alone writing at a long conference table, with the meeting continuing at the front of the room behind him.

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