From: Murari Ojha
[mailto:murariojha@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006
8:01 PM
To: Frank Wallace;
shantipsp@yahoo.com; Dev, Ajay; Anup Srivastav; Gajendra Adhikari;
murariojha@comcast.net
Subject: Fw:
Help Bhuwani- urgent
----- Original Message -----
From: Friends of
Nepal
To: FriendsofNepal@usa.com
Sent: Tuesday, September
05, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Help Bhuwani- urgent
Dear Friends,
We are writing to
you in regards to a young Nepali man named Bhuwani
who urgently needs your help. Bhuwani is from a very
poor family in a remote village near Pokhara. He recently came to the US through the
DV lottery and was working. After several months he started behaving more and
more strangely, because he is suffering greatly from mental illness. For
instance, he had terrifying hallucinations including that his mother’s house
was on fire in Nepal
and that a person was trying to kill him causing him to jump out of a window.
He has lost all of his money, passport, greencard,
and social security card due to his illness. It has caused him to be
involuntarily hospitalized twice.
Luckily he is
currently under very competent and compassionate care at the UCLA Harbor
Medical Center. California has very strict criteria of whom
they can hold under psychiatric care, and Bhuwani has
fit these criteria, which is just to say that he is suffering very much – he is
very sick. Some of us met with Bhuwani and his doctor
not too long ago. However, Bhuwani’s doctor does
think that his prognosis is good, that is, he has a chance of recovery under
the right circumstances. The doctor also thinks that Bhuwani’s
best chance for recovery is in Nepal, not here, so we are all working together
to help him get back home. The hospital here will help us to make sure that he
is protected during his travel back to Nepal.
FON, LA is working
to help find him psychiatric care in Nepal. However, according to his
doctor here, Bhuwani will need to take medication
under the supervision of a psychiatrist for many years to come. Bhuwani’s family is
in no situation to help him with this, so he is counting on us to fill that
role. This need is URGENT as he will be released from the hospital in 7 to 10
days (between Sept. 1 and 7). We have managed to get the hospital to help him
send him home with an escort so that he doesn’t get into any trouble on the
plane, but he still needs our help.
What Bhuwani needs right now is some financial help
with:
1)
getting back home and
2) continuing
his care/recovery in Nepal
If you would like to help Bhuwani financially, please
send a check made out to Friends of
Nepal, Los Angeles with “Bhuwani fund”
written in the memo section (next to where you sign the check) to the following
address:
Friends of Nepal
3500 Overland Avenue - #110-51
Los Angeles, CA 90034-5696
We have created a section called "Bhuwani Fund" in our web site http://www.FriendsofNepal-LosAngeles.Org
so that you could also obtain the information on how you could
contribute by visiting the site.
Also, if you have any suggestions as to how to help Bhuwani
find psychiatric care in Nepal,
please contact us at friendsofnepal@usa.com.
Please forward this to those who you think might be able to help.
Sincerely,
FON-LA Board of Directors
Dr. JoAnne Shwayder
Pandey
Bikash Sharma
Kundan Rimal
Sandra Hunnicutt
Abhijeet Shrestha
Mohan Nure Sharma
Federal Non-Profit Tax ID: 02-0579894