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Dubai resident with memory loss to be reunited with family

Dubai - The Nepali woman had lost her memory while recuperating from a brain surgery.

A nationwide hunt to find relatives and friends of a Nepali woman who lost her memory and was admitted at a Dubai hospital for the last four months has yielded positive results.
The Embassy of Nepal in Abu Dhabi has confirmed to Khaleej Times that they have established a connection with Yam Kumari Thapa's family and that she will soon be repatriated to her hometown Gorkha in Nepal, where she will be reunited with her family.
" Our consular department in Kathmandu has got in touch with Thapa's family and we are now getting her papers together to facilitate her repatriation process. Her family has been informed about the same and they will be coming to pick her up at the airport along with officials of the consul office in Kathmandu., " said Rita Dhital, spokesperson and deputy chief of the Nepal embassy in Abu Dhabi told Khaleej Times.
Thapa's plight of being stuck at a hospital in Dubai for four months with no friends and family was widely shared in the local media as well as social media that helped track her family in Nepal.
Although Thapa has no memory of the past, she speaks fluent Arabic, Nepalese and also Hindi and the only thing she remembered was that she had a son. The hospital had discharged Thapa a week ago but since she had no place to go, they kept her in a ward and contacted a social worker to take up her cause.
Social worker Laila Abu Bakar who was seeking help from the public and Abu Dhabi embassy to help find Thapa's family said after the story went viral on social media, she received calls from people who shared the numbers of Thapa's brother and son and said she would be getting in touch with them. 
Abu Bakar said that the woman's passport says she came to the UAE in 2014 on a housemaid visa issued in Dubai.
According to Thapa's medical reports, she was brought to the emergency room with a history of vomiting and on a coma scale 3/5 in which she was given mechanical ventilation. Her CT scan showed right frontal intracerebral haematoma and intraventricular haemmorhage extension. A procedure called Burr Hole ventricular puncture was conducted on her and stayed in ICU for some days until she got stable and moved into a general ward.
Thapa's condition is now stable and she has gained consciousness, however, she still suffers from bouts of headache, fever, and pain and is taking medication for that.
saman@khaleejtimes.com