Nuwakot, Aug. 31 -- For survivors who escaped the Bhotekoshi flood with their lives, the crisis is far from over. Roads remain cut off, health services have been disrupted, and essential medicines are running short, leaving those who lost their homes facing a growing threat of illness.

At a temporary shelter in Laharepauwa, Rasuwa, 26-year-old Ranjina Tamang is struggling to care for her four-month-old son, who has had a fever since Saturday.

Ranjina, who is four months postpartum, is among more than 150 people sheltering at Shivalaya Basic School in Uttargaya Rural Municipality. Health workers came to the camp on Sunday morning, examined her baby and wrote down the names of medicines she should buy.

But she has no money to buy them. ...