HDCS-TEAM Hospital Dadeldhura and Nyaya’s Bayalpata Hospital in Achham were featured in an article on GHDonline.  GHD (the Global Health Delivery Project) aims to improve health care delivery in resource-limited settings, through online communities in which practitioners across the globe can share strategies which improve health outcomes.  Leaders of both hospitals have been able to collaborate and learn from one another through GHD’s online forums.  Read the article here.

This patient story was written up by Dr. Sadichhya, a Nepali MBBS (junior doctor) who has been working at our hospital for over a year. Our junior doctors are a vital part of our team here, and Dr. Sadichhya has been a great asset to our hospital. She has now gone on to pursue further medical training and we wish her the best. Around 11 pm on a cold November night, a young couple came into our emergency room. The wife had been referred from smaller hospital a few hours away from ours. She was 29 weeks pregnant with their [...]

Our construction crew has made great progress over the last few months!  The walls for the first floor are almost done, and construction of the training hall and hostel on the second floor has begun.  Learn more about our expansion plan here.  If you’d like to be a part of improving health care here in Far Western Nepal, give now.

Supply procurement in this part of the world is a logistical challenge, to put it mildly.  Even though we’re located just off what is the main thoroughfare through the district which connects us directly to the main east west highway, getting the things we need here in a timely fashion often presents difficulty. Take, for example, a recent shipment of donated goods from the US that arrived at our hospital last month.  These were much needed items, donated by one of our partner organizations, Heart to Heart International.  However, shipping from the US to Nepal is prohibitively expensive if we [...]