CRI听力:Long Way to Go for Earthquake Survivors' Recovery in Nepal

The Nepalese government is speeding up the post-disaster reconstruction about two months after a first massive earthquake hit the nation.

The earthquakes in April and May killed more than 87-hundred people and injured 22-thousand others.

Many survivors who suffered broken bones, lost limbs, and other injuries are still struggling to recover.

We have more details from CRI's Huang Shan.

The Nepalese government has offered free surgery and basic medical care to the injured. But many earthquake victims discharged from hospital hardly receive any rehabilitation or after-care, vital for a full recovery.

Aurelie Viard, a project manager at a non-profit organization that helps the injured victims with physical therapy, equipment and treatment, says only the bigger hospitals in Nepal have facilities and experts to carry out physical therapy.

"Since the earthquake there have been facilities for primary health care but there is really a lack of rehabilitation facilities for the injuries. Basically people get treated and stay a few days or a few weeks in the hospital and in the health care centres and then they get discharged."

She is urging Nepal's government to do more for the treatment for the injured to ensure recovery in the long run.

"They don't do proper follow up which means basically the injury can bring like really long term impairments and if they don't get proper treatment and proper physical treatment then they will not be able to get back to their daily activities as they used to do before the earthquakes."

In addition, local medical experts say for many injured victims, who are poor and uneducated, survival rather than rehabilitation, is uppermost in their minds.

Sedar Tamang, a victim who lost his left leg in the earthquake, says the thing he cares about the most is how to make a living after being discharged from hospital.

"We have no where to go. Our village is not safe. I have three children and no idea how I am going to earn a living to feed them."

In order to seek more financial help, the Nepalese government is set to hold an international donor meeting later this month.

For CRI, I'm Huang Shan.