19
March
Babesh Tamang was four years old when he developed an infection in his foot. His mother, Muna, took him to a local health post and then to the hospital closest to their home in Itahari, a small city nine hours drive east of Kathmandu in Nepal. Doctors at the hospital told Muna she should take Babesh to India for an MRI. But Muna couldn’t afford to pay for the travel and medical costs from the less than $3,500 a year her husband earns working as a laborer in the Persian Gulf. So they treated Babesh’s foot infection with medications and hoped for the best.
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