Saving Life to Help Many: Aid Worker Home After Care Here

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On a recent afternoon, Bishnu Adhikari positioned himself flat on his back on a skinny white table and stared up at the ceiling. For the next hour -- wearing a white mesh mask that made him look like a fencer taking a nap -- he lay perfectly still while hundreds of radiation beams targeted a tiny, diseased part of his brain.

Adhikari is from a region of Nepal where medical care is still fairly primitive, a place where pregnant women often give birth, alone, in sheds. If a man breaks his leg, he will probably be carried three hours in a bamboo basket to a clinic and then, after he gets a bandage, he might be carried to a hospital a day away.

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Saving Life to Help Many: Aid Worker Home After Care Here

Adhikari is luckier than most. When he collapsed one February day in 2008, he was in one of the region's larger towns, so he was put in a van and taken, unconscious, to a h...

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