Friendship Clinic Nepal
The Friendship Clinic Nepal is a small day clinic in the mud hut village of Meghauli near the Royal Chitwan National Park , Nepal . The self-help project is supported by the voluntary work of doctors and nurses and by donations.
Project
Hari Bhandary, himself a villager from Meghauli, initiated the “Friendship Clinic Nepal” project in 1997 to improve health care for the local population, which was neglected by the state. The clinic is intended to provide medical care for a catchment area of 50,000 people.
The project is based on the commitment of the local population. The village made building land available, procured building materials, and the population was involved in building the clinic. Primarily villagers are trained and hired as employees of the clinic. Patients have to pay for part of the treatment; the clinic only covers the costs in exceptional cases. Western doctors and nurses are not part of the permanent clinic team, but sometimes work as voluntary helpers.
clinic
In 1998, the clinic began as outpatient care with a nurse and a "health assistant". The team now consists of a general practitioner, ophthalmologist, psychiatrist, gynecologist, dentist, pediatrician, a midwife, five nurses and a laboratory assistant. They are supported in their work by doctors and nurses from Europe and the USA. Future doctors will have the opportunity of their foreign under clinical internship or a four-month period of practical year to work in the Friendship Clinic Nepal. In 2009, around 13,000 patients were treated in the clinic and in so-called health camps in the surrounding area.
The majority of patients suffer from gastrointestinal diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, eye, ear and skin infections caused by poor hygienic conditions, psychiatric and tropical diseases. Patients with serious illnesses, complicated births or accidents can be given primary care and then taken by the clinic's own ambulance to the nearest state hospital or to Kathmandu , 200 km away .
Other Projects
In addition to medical care, the Friendship Clinic Nepal project also takes on other social tasks:
- Health camp once a month in the area
- Large-scale supply of drinking water wells and sanitary facilities
- Support of very poor families to enable the children to go to school (approx. 90 children in 2007)
- Establishment of three kindergartens to date (approx. 150 children between the ages of 2.5 and 5), care for the children through the clinic's own vegetable cultivation and dairy farming
- Sponsorships for kindergarten children
- Scout groups (for 30 children)
- Goals for the future include a. the establishment of a number of stationary hospital beds, the purchase of ultrasound, X-ray and EKG machines, and the establishment of computer lessons for schoolchildren and adults
Sponsorship group
After the Freiburg doctors Andrea and Jan Harder had convinced themselves of the positive development of the project through regular contact with Hari Bhandary, they founded a non-profit support group together with doctors from the Freiburg University Hospital in 2002 to provide donations and the placement of volunteer doctors, nurses and - care to support the work of the Friendship Clinic Nepal. All members of the Friendship Clinic Nepal support group work on a voluntary basis.
In 2012, after a visit from the clinic's founder Hari Bhandary, social work students at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences developed a fundraising concept for the German association “Friendship Clinic Nepal”.
The American Medical Women's Association sponsors the clinic's position as a midwife who bike-rides pregnant women in eight villages and provides health education.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Clinic founder with ideals Badische Zeitung , December 14, 2009
- ↑ Clinic Nepal Again Reaches Out to the Tharu People of Western Madi, Chitwan ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 88 kB) Report on a health camp by Caroline Lee, April 2010
- ^ Project reports 2011: Nepal by Tatiana Mitova IPPNW
- ^ Project reports 2010: Nepal by Kathrin Sonnenschein IPPNW
- ^ Project reports 2009: Nepal by Katharina Chu IPPNW
- ↑ Three cups of rice for a kindergarten place: Social work in Nepal ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cologne University of Applied Sciences , July 4, 2012.
- ↑ When students become consultants: Fundraising concept for Nepal University of Applied Sciences Cologne , December 19, 2012.
- ↑ Clinic Nepal Inc. ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. American Medical Women's Association, accessed February 8, 2013
