Meghauli

On the 12th we headed from Pokhara to Meghauli, located within Chitwan National Park. It was about a 5 hour drive from Pokhara and probably the most rural location we had experienced yet.

We were working at a clinic in the jungle set up by a local man with help from foreign volunteers, it was called Clinic Nepal. Part of the group worked all day Friday in the clinic where we provided extractions to the general public while the other part of the group went to a nearby school and saw over 200 children providing restorations and simple extractions. On Saturday we worked for half a day in the clinic providing extractions and restorations to the general public. It was impossible to walk through the clinic lobby or hallway without bumping into people and as soon as you finished one extraction or filling there was another patient sitting in the seat before you'd even had a chance to clear the instruments and get new ones. It was great to see all the people we were helping and that the news of our camp had reached so many people, however it was unbearably hot in Meghauli. It had to be around 100 degrees in the clinic each day and with spotty power we rarely had the little relief of fans. By saturday we were all ready to leave, though we would have liked to stay longer we were all bordering on heat exhaustion.