The Thrangu Clinic (Menla-Thrangu Mentsi Khang) Return to Projects |
The Thrangu Clinic, 2 hours outside of Kathmandu, provides medical services to the
 villagers who live near by. It has low-cost medicine,
health
care services and essential preventative health information. There is a small registration fee and then all other services are free.A university-trained health care worker comes 3 times a week and a visiting doctor once a week. There are trained monks from the monastery who do acupuncture and practice Tibetan medicine in a beautiful, new clinic that is part of the Thrangu Monastery campus. A pharmacy is on-site for the 3000 villagers and monks, which greatly improves their lives. The clinic provides simple treatments for skin diseases, burns, infections, diarrhea and allergies that could become debilitating or fatal if left untreated. Villagers often walk 4 hours for treatment. There are dental clinics run twice yearly by Global Dental Relief which supplied equipment that is kept at Namo Buddha permanently. Acupuncture needles are always needed!
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