Health Clinic in Rural Nepal - 2008

Health Clinic in Rural Nepal - 2008

Health Clinic in Rural Nepal - 2008

Tamang Village, Rasuwa District of Nepal

Tamang Village, Rasuwa District of Nepal
There are 3 Tamang villages served by the clinic and around 7000 people altogether depend on this clinic as their only source of medical care. It costs roughly $2.00 per villager per year to operate the clinic.

Inside the outpatient room, medicines

Inside the outpatient room, medicines
Villagers are asked to reimburse the clinic for medicine if they can afford to do so. We attempt to keep a revolving medicine fund that way. No one is refused treatment however.

Hard life in the village

Hard life in the village
This young girl must attend to her baby sister while mom and dad work as subsistence farmers, just barely able to raise enough food to go around.

Pharmacy at the hospital / Kalikastan Nepal

Pharmacy at the hospital / Kalikastan Nepal
Photo from Progress Report 'Nepal Healthcare Update: Feb 2009'

Procedure Room at hospital / Kalikastan Nepal

Procedure Room at hospital / Kalikastan Nepal
Photo from Progress Report 'Nepal Healthcare Update: Feb 2009'

The Clinic's Grand Opening

The Clinic's Grand Opening
Photo from Progress Report 'August 2008: Healthcare update from Nepal'

First Patient

First Patient
Photo from Progress Report 'August 2008: Healthcare update from Nepal'