Medical Technologist

medical technologist: Joseph Hospital who shares the name of his homeland, is grateful that his relatives and his wife in the country — as well as those of the 10 to 12 other Hamilton families from Nepal — are all OK for now, according to Hamilton Spectator. They were not in the hardest-hit areas, he said. "Their homes were not affected, but they are staying outside their homes because of the aftershocks. But Rabindra Nepal, a medical technologist in the virology lab at St. They have food and water for at least two weeks." "But I am worried. I am afraid of illness and disease spreading." Nepal has been able to reach his parents and brothers and sisters by cellphone within the past day or so, but he panicked on Saturday when he was unable to reach anyone after the massive earthquake hit on the weekend. "My parents and my brother family and my wife parents are in Kathmandu … three or four kilometres from the area where the houses are now rubble." The medical worker, in Canada five years now — three of them in Hamilton, sits on the board of the South Asian Heritage Association of Hamilton and Region, which is having its annual Festival of South Asia on Saturday. More than 4,000 have died and then heavy rains set in. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.