From Today’s Nepali Times
The 25 civil society activists, doctors and journalists who defied the curfew on 8 April at the Teaching Hospital and jump-started the current agitation and were arrested have been shifted to a detention centre in Duwakot. The group includes prominent human rights activists Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Kapil Shrestha and Malla K Sundar, constitutional expert Laxman Aryal, medical doctors Madhu Ghimire and Sundar Mani Dixit, as well as Himalmedia publisher Kanak Mani Dixit.
Dr. Madhu was a Peace Corps Doctor in the 1990s and has been active in the peace movement.
The doctor mentioned here correctly identified the two-year long infection on my ankle as fungal. He couldn’t cure it with anti-fungal cream or oral anti-biotics but went on to suggest that I wear socks and shoes ALL the time and it went away.
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If we’re signing Dr. Madhu’s praises, then I should mention that he also was able to identify my very subtle nystagmus in my 10-minute check-up. It took a year of visiting different opthamologist in the US to have it finally diagnosed.
Poor guy’s in jail now. I’m almost convinced that there’s no good reason for that. I mean, really.
Yeah, I remember him saying, Now let me take a look at this, and not put on any latex gloves or anything. He put his eyes right down to it and called it straight.
I can also think of another first for me with the good doctor. I won’t tell you what that was.