Dr. Yeshe (from Humla) and I met with the Kathmandu based engineer Tiwari Basu at Java Café. Wanda Vivequin from Canada, is responsible for the funds that came from the trekker Toby Mollins of Montreal Canada. She had hired Mr. Basu to make the best possible plans for the new extension on the Humla Hospital.

Wanda leads amazing treks into the Himalayas. Since Simikot is one of the places she travels to she has introduced many trekkers to the benefits that Citta Nepal’s hospital is bringing to Humla. Wanda has also brought hundreds of donated hats as well to help protect the people of Humla from the harmful raise of the sun at such an altitude. She distributed them through the Hospital.

Mr. Basu had laid out plans as well as he could with the information provided by Wanda and myself. When Yeshe met with Basu before my arrival, he added a few rooms he felt were necessary, so an upstairs was put on the plans. The budget was now way over what we had planned to spend. The meeting with both Yeshe and Basu was a struggle between budget and design and what Yeshe wanted this tour de force new medical facility to be. In the end there was a good compromise and the top floor was left off and the bottom floor was extended 13 ft to accommodate a delivery ward. The x-ray lab and equipment rooms were left off and Yeshe said we may be able to accommodate this in the new structure that was being built at the moment.