Trading food for medicine and crossing the river by zip line are part of life in Nepal flood zone - apnews.com

Survivors of Nepal's deadly late-August floods are sheltering in relief camps in Nuwakot district, where authorities have supplied food and basic goods but shortages of essential medicines and cash persist.
Suresh Kumar Karanjit, who lost his younger brother and has been staying at a relief center in Devighat for a week, could not find the specific medicine for his heart condition, and only obtained the cash to buy it by selling a relief carton of noodles for 400 rupees ($2.60).
Nepal's disaster chief, Dharam Raj Uprety, said health centers staffed by doctors and stocked with medicine had been established at each shelter, with attention also given to hygiene and sanitation to limit the spread of disease.
The floods, which struck on Aug. 26 and were likely triggered by a glacier collapse, destroyed homes, roads and disrupted normal travel routes across towns and valleys in the region.
With roads damaged, the Nepalese Army installed a temporary zip line over the Trishuli River in Bidur, allowing residents to pull themselves across the water to commute in the flood's aftermath.
Images from the disaster response included rows of flood victims' bodies laid out for a mass burial in Kathmandu on Sept. 1, 2026, underscoring the deadly toll of the disaster.