18 August, Kathmandu. On Wednesday, there was no crowd as usual at the University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj. Relatives of Rasuwa flood victims were not seen in a long line to write names at the desk like other days. Instead, some relatives were working hard to put up more leaflets written all over the hospital with the names of uncontacted people.

Even when Online Khabar reached the hospital, more leaflets were still being posted. The faces seen in the waiting room were not those of flood victims and their relatives, but relatives and relatives of patients with other diseases.

Meanwhile, Santoshi Adhikari, a resident of Thankot, arrived to search for those lost in the flood. Teaching was not his first destination in the race of inquiry. She had already reached the trauma center and the cantonment hospital.

Rasuwa's flood has left his Sanima and Sanima's daughter missing. After searching everywhere but not finding the name, even the little hope that was left in him is now extinguished.

"There is no hope that they will be found alive, but they could have been found dead," she says in a serious voice.

The flood that occurred on the 10th of August washed away the big bazaar without any remnants, so the hope that the relatives without contact are still alive has been completely erased from his mind. She narrates that it is not possible to recognize which house was where because the names of the settlement and the market have been erased.

All the markets have turned into buggers. How can you hope that they are alive after seeing such a scene? The house itself is unrecognizable," she said with a sigh of disappointment.

She says that since the flood swept away the electricity structure, her mobile phone could not be charged, so she was unable to communicate with her relatives who were safe. She sent solar devices there to avoid power shortages, but the problem remains the same as they don't last long.

"Where is it from, it allows you to charge your mobile phone for 15 minutes! You can talk only as long as the charge lasts," she says.

According to Santoshi, many still have not given information about their relatives who have no contact. He said that due to the lack of information about administrative procedures and rules and laws, those who did not come to mention or search for names could not be connected to the actual statistics.

In the hospital premises, Salyan's Asha Magar also gets emotional and says that her brother Vishal Ro is out of touch. 16 of his relatives are missing.

His throat became blocked while he was telling about the loss of a relative. She cried for a long time while talking.

26-year-old Vishal Roka is a resident of Kapurkot Rural Municipality, who had reached the flood-affected area for employment. Another 55 people from Salyan are still uncontacted from that area, and some village staff are missing in the list.

Asha could not speak for a long time. The pain of being separated from relatives has affected him badly. Even the crowd of the city seems to be zero-zero to him.

With her grandmother's eyes, she looked at the photos of the uncontacted hanging on the walls of the hospital, her companion reminded her. After not getting any information about her brother's teaching, she left unanswered.

Kanchan reports on current affairs in Online News.