(Toledo News Now) - A team of 16 Toledo medical professionals donated their time and expertise to help the injured in a remote village in Nepal following a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Doctor Kristopher Brickman, chairman of the Emergency Medical Department at the University of Toledo, says they slept in tents, hiked through mountains and experienced the second earthquake to hit Nepal, all while healing hundreds of victims in the disaster.
Dr. Brickman is just one of the 16 people who flew to Nepal in early May to treat the victims of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
He says after landing in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, the team was sent 50 miles away to villages nobody had a chance to get to yet.
They set up camp in an open area, but also went looking for people who needed assistance. Brickman says in six days, they treated more than 1,500 patients.
“They were very simple people, very warm people, they greeted you with open arms, I mean they truly respected and appreciated you being there,” said Brickman.
The day before Brickman and the team flew out, they were in Kathmandu University when a second earthquake hit Nepal.
Brickman says everything started shaking and people ran out of the building, afraid it would collapse. Thankfully, it did not. However, Brickman says the second earthquake was in the area where they had been treating people in the villages.
