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• HEALTH SERVICES
Supporting health camps, clinics and hospitals and providing emergency medical funds for the poor.
The average life expectancy in Nepal at birth is 55 years, one of the lowest in the world with men outliving women by approximately two years.
Good health is fundamental to a fulfilling life. Poor health, caused in part by poor access to basic health services, limits educational attainment, decreases the quality of life and reduces livelihoods opportunities. Those living in remote areas tend to experience the greatest difficulties in accessing health services.
As a contribution to overcoming some of these difficulties Shenpen adopts a holistic approach to health care provision and provides financial and technical support to mobile health camps, clinics and hospitals. It has also established an emergency medical fund to provide life saving support to those living in extreme poverty.
Each year, in collaboration with international medical teams from Singapore, Malaysia, Europe and N. America, free dental and medical camps are held in remote rural areas. These typically provide free services to several thousand poor patients. In addition, financial and technical support is provided to Bir Hospital’s Burns Unit in partnership with CHANCE for Nepal.
© 2006, Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen