Seven weeks after the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal, a Canadian nurse remains on the ground in the country, helping to provide medical services through the Red Cross' mobile hospital in Dhunche.

Karen Dyck has been working with the Canadian Red Cross in Dhunche for three weeks, with one more to go before she returns home to Winnipeg. (Submitted) Prior to the earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, a hospital stood where the mobile clinic has been erected. The team of health professionals are providing people in the mountainous region with basic health services as well as expanded surgical options.

"People have lost what little they had. They're survivors, they know how to survive but they have lost a lot of the basic things they're used to having. So they're struggling," said Karen Dyck, a Winnipeg nurse.

With the basic supplies they have on hand, one of the most common procedures the field team has been doing is C-sections, saving women from having to travel to Kathmandu.

"You have what you have and you make due. It's a challenge but it's a good challenge," Dyck told CBC's Information Radio.

New problems are on the horizon now as Nepal enters monsoon season.

The Red Cross staff had to fly into Dhunche when they arrived two weeks ago, as roads open up, access is becoming more reliable and daily deliveries of supplies are coming in. (Google Maps) "People are getting nervous about what's going to hit them next after the earthquake," Dyck said.

Dyck said the feeling of community in Dhunche is incredible. From what she has seen, as long as that sense of community remains intact, they can live through this, she said.

Dyck has been working at the field hospital for three weeks and will stay there until June 21 before she returns to Canada.