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What

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The clinic will provide basic medical services to the residents of Thulo Syabru and surrounding villages. These communities suffer from health problems associated with crippling poverty, such as diarrhea, worm infestation, malnutrition, acute respiratory infections, and tuberculosis.

Activities

Operating costs of $15,000/yr ($5/day) provides critical care to 7,000 people ($2 per person) * Management of childhood illnesses * Immunizations * Antenatal/post natal care * Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, etc. *

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,755
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $13,245
Total Funding Goal: $15,000

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Why

Potential Long Term Impact

With this Clinic and laboratory, we are one crucial step closer to our goal of 3 clinics that triangulate this part of the Rasuwa District in Nepal, making health care available to thousands.

Project Message

The Clinic has become a truly important resource for these communities -- every donation makes a tremendous difference to thousands who would otherwise have no available health care.
- Scott MacLennan, Executive Director

Who

Where

Country

This project is located in Nepal and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Nepal, read the Human Development Report on Nepal or the Wikipedia entry for Nepal.

When

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 15, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

August 2008: Healthcare update from Nepal

By Jenn Spradlin - Assistant Director, August 07, 2008 06:20 PM

The village of Thulo Syabru, located in the Rasuwa District of Nepal, has been working with The Mountain Fund for the past three years, to turn their idea of a health clinic into reality. This past March, TMF Founder, Scott MacLennan, and Thulo Syabru resident, Bhunima Lama, worked for one month to prepare the clinic’s building for occupancy; by connecting a water supply system and extensive cleaning of the interior. We are happy to announce that the clinic had its grand opening in April.

To reach Thulo Syabru it’s a three hour walk from the nearest road. Before this clinic, sick or injured people, including pregnant women, had to walk three hours down a steep trail to go to a health post and three hours back up the same steep trail to reach home safely. The amount of people served by this clinic is geographically huge, and reaches as far as Gossaikund, a three day walk from here. The clinic is strategically located at the convergence of the Helembu and Langtang trails, and so it can also assist trekkers who need first aid.

The clinic is staffed with one CMA (Certified Medical Assistant) and a Staff Nurse, and costs less than $2.00 (US) per family, per year, to operate. Medicine is sold at wholesale cost, and we do not turn patients away if they don’t have any money. Since its grand opening in April, the clinic has been treating 3 patients per day.
For more information about our projects, please visit www.mountainfund.org
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• The Clinic's Grand Opening
• First Patient

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