Mike's Note: Julia Iwama is the daughter of the family doctor of most of the Delta House residents!
Destiny drives Surrey nurse to Nepal
Another nurse leaves the B.C. health system, but this one is on a mission for good.
Vancouver Sun
It's minutes after 7 p.m., the end of a long work day for Surrey Memorial emergency nurse Julia Iwama.
In the 12 hours she's been on shift, there's been no end to the human suffering and need streaming in through the automated hospital doors - the drug-addicted, the chronically ill, the frightened and the lonely.
"I don't doubt I could be useful here," Iwama says, leaning forward to rest an elbow on the small cafeteria table, fist curled up under her chin as she considers her situation.
"But, I guess, that's not what it is really about for me."
At 23, Iwama has decided what "it" (life) is about: living and working in Nepal.
Come September, the recent University of B.C. nursing school graduate will pack up her comfortable life in Canada and say goodbye to her family and friends in order to devote herself and her skills full time to the 1.5 million, mainly impoverished people living in Dadeldhura, a remote community high up in the Himalayas.
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