Kathmandu: Nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquake in Nepal, a 59-year-old woman, whose leg was severely fractured, was airlifted from a remote village in Gorkha district, the epicentre of the disaster.
The woman, Sukhmaya Bike, a resident of Kharchok village, had got trapped under her house's roof after the April 25 earthquake hit her small village of around 200 people.
Her husband pulled her out from the rubble, but her foot was so badly injured that she could hardly move.
"All houses in the village have turned into rubble after the earthquake. When it struck our house, the roof fell on her feet," said her husband Sukhbahadur Bike (70).
"The local doctor's house was also damaged and the only thing he could offer was a bandage," he said.
The road connectivity to the village was snapped after the earthquake, which left the villagers and Bike with no option but to be confined there.
With Nepalese army now increasingly reaching in the interiors, the rescue team with choppers today went to Kharchok with relief material and found out that Bike urgently needed medical attention.
Following this, she was airlifted and brought to the makeshift Indian hospital in Sinemangal in the capital.
"She has suffered two fractures in her leg and requires urgent operation," said a doctor at the make-shift hospital.
