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Day care and mud guards: How health officials are building a firewall against deadly burns

November 30, 2017Health

In Nepal, Padma Maharjan is doing her best to prevent burns. Maharjan works at the Nepal Cleft and Burn Center near Kathmandu. Most days she changes dressings on burn patients.

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Reconstructing hope: A surgeon’s mission to help Nepal’s burn patients

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