Tibetan Delek Hospital
| Tibetan Delek Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Services | |
| Beds | 45 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1971 |
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The Tibetan Delek Hospital is a Tibetan hospital founded in 1971 and located in Dharamsala in Northern India. It serves the Tibetan residents, and local community in the region, including tourists from around the world.[1] It practices social assistance, mainly using allopathic Western medicine.[2] In 2013, the Kochon Prize, Stop TB Partnership is attributed to the Delek hospital, but China is pressuring the WHO.[3][4]
History
Delek Hospital was built through donations and provide care at a low cost to patients, while taking care of low-income patients.
It was founded in 1971 by the Dalai Lama to give allopathic medical care to Tibetan refugees and the Indian community living in Dharamsala, a city of Northern India.
In June 2008, the Delek hospital began a program to improve the control of tuberculosis in the Tibetan diaspora, supported by the Johns Hopkins University with the participation of Dr. Zorba Paster and Richard Chaissonet,[5] and the Associazione Italiana per la Solidarietà fra i Popoli (AISPO).[6]
The Rotary Club of Sunshine, based in Australia, participates in the financing of the program of tuberculosis control for Tibetan refugees.[7]
Location
It lies between Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj, near the Men-Tsee-Khang conducive to collaboration between these medicines.
Organization
The hospital includes:
- 45 beds, in three services which one is for tuberculosis patients.
- a home for the elderly
- a delivery room
- a bioassay laboratory
- a pharmacy
- equipment: an endoscopy room, x-ray, ultrasound device (a radiologist is present 2 days of the week)
- a surgery room using the services of volunteer surgeons a few weeks in the year.
The hospital staff, composed of Tibetans, speak Tibetan, Hindi and English, includes:
- 4 permanent doctors
- a biologist
- a pharmacist
- 2 dentists
- nurses
- administrators
- cooks for patients
The hospital is equipped with a conference room for meetings of hospital staff and conferences (ministers Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and traditional medicine).
See also
Notes
- ↑ Oren Family, Volunteering in India, IsraAid
- ↑ Bertrand Odelys, Dharamsala, Chroniques tibétaines, Albin Michel, 2003, ISBN 2226142592, p 140
- ↑ (English) Richard Finney, Tibetan Groups Petition WHO for Hospital Award Radio Free Asia, 2013-12-30
- ↑ Betsy McKay, TB Prize Selection Gets Caught in Politics, Wall Street Journal, 26 novembre 2013
- ↑ Delek Hospital details Plan to Combat TB in the Tibetan Community
- ↑ Health Department holds conference to control TB in Tibetan community, 11 October 2010
- ↑ The Rotarian sept. 2005, p 26 "[…] the Rotary Club of Sunshine, Australia, funds a tuberculosis control program for Tibetan refugees at Delek Hospital in Dharamsala, India."
References
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- Friends of Tibetan Delek Hospital (les amis de l'hôpital Delek)
- Joël Gagnon, Des ordinateurs pour les médecins de Dharamsala
- Doeguling Tibetan Resettlement Hospital (DTR), Mundgod
- SHECHEN CLINIC AND HOSPICE