Sonamalhamu Lama, 53, a resident of Namdo, She-Foksundo Rural Municipality-4, had a common headache problem. A week ago, Sonam started having headaches. Her 66-year-old husband, Karma Pasang Gurung, and children didn't care too much that it would be the same as before.

However, when Sonam's headache started getting worse, they took her to Amchi (Tibetan healing system), a healing method practiced by a Lama. But Amchima was not cured by treatment. Instead, the headache started to get worse and worse.

Patient Sonam has no hospital near her village. After the treatment was not possible at the nearby health post, they had to be taken outside the district. After Sonam became very difficult, health workers and local people's representatives suggested chartering a helicopter to take her to Kathmandu for treatment. However, the family was not in a position to dare. People's representatives arranged for a helicopter on loan to be paid after a few months. 

Sonam's family of seven has no regular income. After being coordinated by the She-Foksundo rural municipality, the Simric Air helicopter came to the village to pick up Sonam on 9th June. The helicopter took her to Kathmandu directly from Namdo. Sonam's husband is gone as her husband. 

Sonam is currently undergoing treatment at Om Hospital. According to the doctor, Fupoo's brain is swollen, Japanese encephalitis has also been tested. But the report has not come," said Pemma Buti Gurung, a relative.

According to him, 'It seemed to improve for a few days after being brought to the hospital, but after it became very difficult again, they are being treated in the ICU.' Sonam's treatment is going on in the hospital's ICU, but the family is more worried about how to pay for the helicopter than Sonam's treatment.

family has neither hunger nor sleep during the day. Sonam's husband Karma is asking for help from the hospital for his wife's treatment. Pemma said that since it is expensive to treat him in the ICU at the Om Hospital, he is now looking for an ICU in the government hospital, but he is nowhere to be found.

24-year-old daughter Kunsang Buti Gurung reached Upallo Dolpa from Kathmandu on June 6 to meet her mother. Kunsang, who had arrived in Dolpa only three days before her mother was rescued by helicopter, was not recognized by her mother.

As soon as I found out that my mother was ill, I reached home after a week. But my mother did not recognize me, then my mother was flown to Kathmandu in a helicopter,' Kunsang said emotionally, 'I was told that there was no seat in the helicopter instead of going with my mother.' The health has not improved, since then the office of the helicopter is asking for payment of fifty percent of the charter flight, what to do now? How to do ? I can't even think about it," said Kunsang.

Sonam's family does not have much land. There are cracks in the house. 'Selling the small land and land  However, there is a plan to collect half of the amount to pay for the helicopter, no one will come to buy rather than sell it now, that's why we have asked for two months, during this period we have to sell and pay anyway,' Kunsang said. 

He is thinking of paying the cost of the helicopter, even if it is by taking a loan from a local moneylender with high interest along with livestock and land. "I can't sleep all night thinking about how to raise the expenses for the treatment including the helicopter rental. I am also in Dolpa, upper Dolpa. I have to walk for four/five days to reach Dunai from my village. It takes two days to go to Kathmandu from Dunai by bus," Kunsang said.

After her parents went to Kathmandu, now she is taking care of her siblings and living in farming. She is planning to go to Kathmandu after her parents return. There is no hospital for treatment within the She-Foksundo rural municipality, if the local residents need to see a doctor, they have to walk for five/six days to the district headquarters, in case of complicated illness, there is no option to charter a helicopter and fly,' complained Pema Buti Gurung, a local nurse.

She says, "Currently, I work as a school nurse in a school in Kathmandu. My village, where I grew up, has a complex problem of health care. Even now, the road has not reached the headquarters. Five/six mountains have to be crossed to reach the headquarters. You have to walk every day.'

According to her, Sonam and she are related. She said, 'The patient Sonam is related to me, a campaign has been launched in a social operation to pay for the helicopter charter for her treatment. However, a small amount of money has been raised.

Upper Dolpa, which has a population of around 9,000, has three local levels: She-Foksundo, Dolpo Buddha and Charkatangsong. The main problem of upper Dolpa is health care. "In Upper Dolpa, many people die prematurely because they cannot afford treatment expenses, many houses have been sold," said Pema.