You never want to have to go to the ER for any reason, ever. If you have been you know that you'll wait forever, the guy who wants your insurance info is as sympathetic to your problem as the bouncer at Bungalow 8, the doctor charged with dealing with you looks like he hasn't slept in 3 days and couldn't care less that your heart is palpitating/hand is broken/brain is oozing out of your nose/or whatever he has seen a thousand times before, and you totally inherently trust the place to save your life no matter what.
Now imagine that you wouldn't trust the place if your life depended on it, but unfortunately, it does. The ER at the Tribuhvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), one of the top hospitals in Kathmandu, is in the pics above. The third pic is of the entry-hall/waiting-room area, which was swimming in dirt, kind of under renovation, and still being used. The last is a view into the ER itself, where they wouldn't let me in even though I kept saying "I'm a doctor!" Can't imagine why in my sundress with camera in hand they didn't buy it.
The first pic is the orthopedic surgeon's office, total swarming chaos. The second is from from another hospital, the Medical College at Bharatpur, of the menu advertising OBGYN services. I mean if it's free...
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