Ganesh, having 4 members of his family missing after the tragic Bhotekoshi flood on Aug 26, is hoping to connect and collect information regarding them seeking help from the locals, rescue teams to look around the Syafrubensi and Briddim area.
Among the family members were Shreedharan Iyer, Laxmi Shreedharan Iyer with their two children RIshab and Rudra Shreedharan Iyer. Four of them were on their Kailash-Mansarovar tour via Rasuwagadi route with a larger group of around 45 people according to him. They were headed towards the immigration during the last conversation sometime ago before the flood.
During the conversation with one of our team members, Ganesh also said that none of their name can be found on the data of any list after the event, highlighting the point how there isn't frequent updates on the official online authorities and websites regarding the missing people and people undergoing treatment.
The updates that come to us do not appear to provide a sufficiently frequent or comprehensive picture of how many survivors are undergoing treatment, where they are being treated and what medical conditions they are being treated for especially how for such large scale disaster, the available update seems to be a bit lower than what actually has been expected.
That does not necessarily mean that hospitals are treating only the small number of patients reflected in publicly visible figures. It does, however, create a serious information gap and such information gap is what can't be afforded as it creates more panic to the families of the affected.
In a disaster of this scale, the number of people receiving medical care is not merely a statistic. It helps authorities determine where doctors, medicines, trauma services, mental-health support and other resources are needed.
The World Health Organization has already highlighted the need to strengthen post-disaster health surveillance following Nepal's floods. Its September 9 update focused on strengthening surveillance after the flash floods, underscoring the continuing public-health demands created by the disaster.
