By Chirendra Satyal
Kathmandu, March 27, 2022: The superior of the Missionaries of Charity in Kathmandu has been put on ventilator after she met with a serious road accident in the Himalayan Kingdom.
The accident occurred March 26 when Sister M Sachita was traveling by a bus to Kathmandu from Kankadivitta, some 450 km southeast of the Nepal capital city, according to a message from Bishop Paul Simick of Nepal.
The nun, superior of the Missionaries of Charity Convent at Mitra Park in Kathmandu was sitting in a seat near the driver when the bus overturned at Mugling, some 100 km from Kathmandu, on the Prithvi Highway, that leads out of the capital to the plains.
She was brought to Medicity Hospital in southern Kathmandu unconscious at around 11 am, the bishop’s note says.
A nun, who did not want to identify, told Matters India that Sister Sachita’s “head is badly injured and some of her ribs are and her hand broken.”
Bishop Simick went to the hospital on March 26 evening along with nuns from various congregations and lay person. “I humbly appeal to everyone to pray for her speedy healing and recovery,” the bishop’s letter to his people says.
Sister Sachita first came to Nepal in 1980s as a young nun when the Missionaries of Charity began their mission the country. After a few years, she went back to India but came back to Kathmandu as the superior a few years ago.
The congregation has another house in Pokhara, some 200 km west of Kathmandu. They also have a contemplative house in Pokhara.
In Kathmandu, their first house in Nepal, the nuns care for the aged and disabled. The convent was opened after Mother Teresa came and met former Nepal queen Aishorwya Shah.
The contemplative house in Pokhara was started in 1989 and other house in 2006.