Finally, the surgery was successful and the woman was saved. But that was not all. Just six hours after the earthquake, Dr Sapkota was back at the operating table where he performed a complicated C-section on another woman

The Logical Indian

On 25 April, when everyone in Nepal was running for his life during the earthquake, Dr Ram Prasad Sapkota and his attendant were in a hospital by the bedside of a pregnant woman and trying to save her life.

The woman had delivered a stillborn (dead) child, and Dr Sapkota was stitching up her uterus when the earthquake struck. Any other person would have run out of the old building to save his life, but the brave doctor decided not to run.

"There was no question of evacuating the building as she would have died within minutes," Dr Sapkota told the media.

Finally, the surgery was successful and the woman was saved. But that was not all. Just six hours after the earthquake, Dr Sapkota was back at the operating table where he performed a complicated C-section on another woman.

"She delivered a healthy baby. And there I was holding new life, with death all around. Nature's ways are inscrutable," Dr Sapkota said.

The Logical Indian salutes this braveheart doctor who risked his own life to save his patient. We hope these stories of bravery and hope continue to inspire the world.