Radiological Care in Nepal Boosted by ACRF Earthquake Relief Aid

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 09 Nov 2015

The American College of Radiology Foundation (ACRF) has contributed USD 10,000 to RAD-AID International to improve radiological care in Nepal following two devastating earthquakes in Spring 2015.

The earthquakes resulted in the deaths of around 9,000 people, displaced hundreds of thousands more, and affected 2 million people. The ACRF (Reston, VA, USA) contribution to RAD-AID (Chevy Chase, MD, USA) is being used to help create a radiology fellowship program at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (Kathmandu, Nepal), and is the first medical specialty fellowship program in Nepal. The contribution will also be used to support radiation safety training, assessment, protocol revisions, and to train to Nepalese faculty, residents, staff, and fellows in the use of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).

Image: RAD-AID in Nepal Assisting the Victims of Nepal’s Earthquakes. RAD-AID put together a team of radiologic technologists and radiologists to work in Kathmandu (Photo courtesy of RAD-AID).

The ACRF promotes radiology by soliciting, accepting and managing resources to advance the strategic initiatives of the American College of Radiology (ACR), which was founded in 1924 to advance the radiological care practice, science, and professions.

Howard B. Fleishon, chair of the ACR Foundation Executive Committee, said, “The ACRF Emergency Relief Fund was established to provide direct, urgent support to those facing natural or man-made disasters. We understood the human dimensions of the catastrophe in Nepal and wanted to help the country’s efforts to rebuild and advance its imaging resources.”

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