{"id":36116,"date":"2021-06-17T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=36116"},"modified":"2021-06-17T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T23:00:07","slug":"the-gurkha-veterans-fighting-for-covid-care-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=36116","title":{"rendered":"The Gurkha veterans fighting for Covid care in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Covid has reached the remotest parts of Nepal \u2013 including the mountain village of Barpak, which is home to many British Army Gurkha veterans and their families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For more than 200 years, Gurkha soldiers have been recruited directly from Nepal to fight for the British Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The UK-based charity Gurkha Welfare Trust, which supports veterans and their families, estimates there are more than 20,000 veterans and widows living in Nepal. It says it knows of 58 deaths from Covid.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC\u2019s Rajini Vaidyanathan travels to Barpak to meet veterans and families who say they have been hit hard by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed by Moose Campbell <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producers: Rajneesh Bhandari, Shalu Yadav <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57517327\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid has reached the remotest parts of Nepal \u2013 including the mountain village of Barpak, which is home to many British Army Gurkha veterans and their families. For more than 200 years, Gurkha soldiers have been recruited directly from Nepal to fight for the British Army. The UK-based charity Gurkha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118969729_p09lsxf2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}