The April 2015 earthquake had just hit Kathmandu, and a patient was admitted to Alka Hospital. His small black pet puppy had followed the man to his cabin C18.
The patient died during treatment, and his body was taken away without the pooch knowing. But for the past eight years, the dog has waited for her owner outside the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is grown up now, her silky black coat is dirty and scraggly. But every night since 2015 she has kept vigil outside room C18 at Alka Hospital. In the daytime, she takes the stairs down to the hospital courtyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe just sits there waiting for him to show up,\u201d says Alka Hospital The hospital tried to take the dog back to the patient\u2019s family. She \u201cAfter a while, we just gave up, and have adopted her,\u201d says Goma Thapa, who is a janitor at Alka. The dog has been given the name Kali because of her colour, and she has become a permanent fixture at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week when we visited Alka just before midnight, there was Kali sleeping outside C18. Even after eight years, she remembers her best friend and is still waiting for him. Hospital staff feed her, and she does not bother anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
administrator Bhagwan KC. \u201cShe has never gone anywhere else but this hospital, and at night she is always on the mat outside C18.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GOPEN-RAI2-1024x667.jpg\")
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refused to go, and when his family came she got very agitated and used to hide and bark. The administration then tried to chase the dog away, but she always came back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n