The April 2015 earthquake was the biggest natural disaster in Nepal’s recent history. That is, before the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It killed nearly 9,000 and rendered tens of thousands homeless.

Along with the private houses, hundreds of health facilities were destroyed, health workers were killed and injured, roads were blocked due to landslides triggered by the devastating quake.

“Compared to the ongoing pandemic, the condition was more scary, people were more panicked by the repeated aftershocks or the shock of deaths of their relatives and loss of property,” Dr Senandra Upreti, former secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, who was the then director general at the Department of Health Services, told the Post.

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