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STUDENTS WANT TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE IN NEPAL

Saturday - 30th December 2006

Medical students from Aberdeen University are heading for Nepal in the new year to boost health care for the local people and strengthen their own skills.

The group, all third-year medical students, will spend a month helping to run community hospitals, health posts and health camps in rural areas.

They will also get involved in campaigns aimed at improving the sanitation, health and reproductive health of the Nepalese people. The 20-strong group will be working on behalf of the Humanitarian Educational Long-term Projects (Help) charity, which has been sending students from Aberdeen University to the developing world since 1996.

One of the participants, Sheena McWilliam, said the trip would bring benefits not only to the people of Nepal, but also to the Aberdeen students and the patients who will benefit from their widened experience in future.

"The last people who went out there from the university were doing all sorts of things, like pulling teeth and giving injections," she said.

"It will be a totally different experience from anything we might learn sitting in the library back home. In some of the places we visit, we might be helping to create the first health centres the local people have ever known."

She and her fellow students have been divided into four teams of five for fundraising purposes and for their activities in Nepal in March.

Miss McWilliam, 20, and friends, Catriona Jeffrey, Kate McHugh, Anne Beh and Richard Hawkins, each have to raise £500 to provide resources for the health camp they are visiting. They also have to collect another £400 for their air fares, and are planning a series of events, including a pub quiz, 24-hr cycle ride, bag-packing and charity collections.

Anyone who can support the group's efforts in any way should telephone 07841 641796.


Source MORAG LINDSAY