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Medical
Project Overview and Photos
1.
Funded Chenang Clinic from 2001 to 2004. The Clinic offered medical support to
approximately 500 villagers annually. Sadly, this donated "old home, turned
clinic" was ruined by rain in the summer of 2004.
2.Collaborated
with the local government to build a new clinic in Yari Ghang in the fall
of 2004. The clinic now employs two full-time doctors and one part-time nurse
that targeted to benefit to treat 2500 villagers annually, including patients
from Chenang. TVP continues to support the operational activities by sending money
and medical supplies and coordinating health education workshops.
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| One
of several villages in Yari Ghang area that benefited from our medical clinic. |
Tamdin,
Tsering and Loyak (midwife) in front of newly built medical clinic. |
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| Dr.
Agon, his daughter (also a nurse), and Cindy, a TVP volunteer from Seattle, WA
during a field visit. | Patients
wait at the clinic to receive medical treatment. | 3.
Started supporting Kyigu Clinic in 2005 that is targeted to benefit approximately
1500 villagers in the area. The clinic is staffed by one resident healthcare worker,
Norbu, a certified midwife and a trained nurse. TVP activities will include: purchasing
medicine; providing stipends for clinic staff; and, periodically, sending highly
skilled doctors and equipment from Lhasa Tibetan Hospital to assist healthcare
workers.
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| One
of several villages in Kyigu area that is benefited from the medical clinic. |
A
trained midewife and nurse who works at the clinic. |
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| One
of many babies delivered by the midwife at the clinic. |
During
health education session at Kyigu attended by about 80 villagers. |
4.
Melok Clinic: Melok village is in the Lungho valley located about 200 miles
northeast of Lhasa, and it has approximately 1300 villagers. The clinic room is
provided by the local government as a way of leveraging funds. With TVP's help,
Tenzin Jamphel, a 27-year-old Tibetan nurse from Melok village, made his dreams
come true in March 2006: he has successfully completed three years of nurse's
training and is now helping his fellow villagers to get the medical care they
need.
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| TVP
volunteer helps with FirstAid | A
school is also benefited from the clinic | 4.
Provided financial and logistic support to send Mobile Clinic Units to
remote villages where healthcare workers are not available. The mobile clinic
program of the Tibetan Village Project provides additional resources to our village-based
clinics and travels to villages that don't have doctors in residence. The mobile
clinic team generally includes two doctors, a pharmacist, one hygienist, and a
support vehicle.
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| The
mobile clinic team travels in remote villages |
Health
education in session | | |
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| Dr.
Nyima Tsering while treating a patient | Our
pharmacist with over 100 different herbal pills |
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