Team of nurses from Scripps Health due to return from Nepal this weekend after treating 2,230 earthquake victims

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego-based nurses who have been treating earthquake survivors in remote villages in Nepal are nearing the end of their

stay in the Himalayan country, Scripps Health reported today, Wed., May 20.

The four nurses and one team leader are set to return Wednesday to the capital of Kathmandu, where they will rest and prepare to come home this

weekend, according to the healthcare organization.

They left San Diego May 1, almost one week after the country was ravaged by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake. While they were deployed in mountain villages, a magnitude-7.3 quake struck.

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