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Joan Haig-Ferguson 1925 – 2013

Joan Haig-Ferguson, then Joan Short, was one of the ‘originals’ who trekked into Nepal in 1952 to establish International Nepal Fellowship, then known as the Nepal Evangelistic Band.

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She was a qualified nurse/midwife and had spent two years at Redcliffe Missionary Training College in Chiswick. From the beginning she was the matron, first of the grass hut hospital at Ramghat and then of the Shining Hospital in Pokhara, heading up a staff of expatriate nurses and Nepalis.