Nepal's flood camps are running out of water and medicine, and the doctors are warning about an epidemic

Safety & Advisories Four health facilities in Rasuwa are destroyed, Trishuli Hospital has lost its bridges and its medicines, and 1,000 people are in camps with no clean… By Laxman Rawal · Aug 31, 2026 Read the full story

Six days after the water, the thing most likely to kill someone else in Rasuwa and Nuwakot is no longer the river. It is the drinking water, the camp toilets and the empty pharmacy shelf — and the doctors running the one hospital still working inside the… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

The hospital that lost its bridges and its blood-pressure drugs

Trishuli Hospital in Nuwakot is the anchor of the whole story. It survived the 26 August flood that came down the Bhote Koshi at roughly 50 metres per second, but the bridges around it did not. With every bridge in the area gone, the hospital has been severed… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

What the WHO money is actually buying

The US$150,000 released on 30 August came from the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund. It is small money against a disaster estimated at around Rs 200 billion, and it is deliberately unglamorous: an Interagency Emergency Health Kit sized for about… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

Why the silt is a medical problem, not a cleaning job

Silt has been reported more than 1.5 metres deep across the worst of the disaster zone, and every excavator working in Timure, Betrawati and Trishuli Bazaar is digging through it. That mud is not inert. It sits on top of collapsed latrines, drowned livestock… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

What this means for trekkers

Nothing about this changes the trekking map. The Everest and Annapurna regions were never in the flood path, their trailheads are reached by different roads and flights, and every one of our autumn departures outside the Langtang and Rasuwa corridor is… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

Is there a confirmed disease outbreak in the flood camps?

No. As of 31 August there is no confirmed outbreak. What exists is a stated risk from the medical superintendent of Trishuli Hospital, and a WHO response funded specifically around surveillance and prevention. We will update this page if that changes. Travel Himalaya Nepal · News

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