Medical Clinic

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Medical Clinic

All Together Now International supports a medical clinic giving free primary care to indigent people in Kathmandu, Nepal. The clinic is staffed by a Nepali Doctor, several nurses and physician assistants. All medicines are donated by Western doctors. The clinic is operated as an adjunct to the Leprosy Project.

We help with onsite medical care and in the most desperate cases, we coordinate the patients travel and specialized medical care and surgery in the USA.

Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children

The HRDC is run by a remarkable man, Dr. Ashok Banskota who has dedicated his life to helping the poorest and most disabled children of Nepal.

Dr. Banskota began his orthopedic work operating at his tiny makeshift hospital. Dr. Banskota was doing miraculous work on disabled, indigent children of Nepal; with results that would have made any hospital in the world proud. Dr. Banskota's expertise and compassion drew many desperate needy families all around Nepal, beyond what he and his team could serve.

Frustrated by their limitations, in 1993 Dr. Banskota left the hospital where he was working. He set up an operating room in an old converted house and began building toward the dream of a new hospital where children could receive competent and comprehensive orthopedic care regardless of their ability to pay. The American Himalyan Foundation joined a strong international effort, led by the Swiss NGO Terre des hommes, to build Dr. Banskota that new hospital - the Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children (HRDC).

Patients who walk out of the operating theater have only praises for Dr. Banksota and his team. It's a beautiful hospital, filled with children who feel mended physically and mentally, and who often for the first time see prospects for better lives.

All Together Now International is partnering with the HRDC to bring Nepal its first spinal operating facility to bring about the following program:

Spinal Screening Programs to identify and treat spinal problems at an early stage.

Specialized Surgical Training for Nepali doctors: ATNI will call on our relationships in the medical community to create a residency program at HRDC for American surgeons, as well as to support experienced orthopedic surgeons to provide seminars at HRDC.

Technical Equipment: ATNI will raise funds for and get donated the necessary medical equipment needed to set up an operating theater and post operative care unit, for spinal surgeries. There is already a basic operating complex but needs include: Spinal Instrumentation system; Spinal monitoring system (including a Nerve Stimulator; Serum Electrolyte analyzer; Ventilator for mechanical ventilation: 2 units A C-arm (X-ray machine with monitor) and C-arm compatible operating bed)

Prosthetics Workshop: ATNI will secure equipment, materials and training for "aqua-plast" for use in this area.

Family Education and Support Program: ATNI will support the HRDC in this area by setting up a volunteer program to help staff this project and to fundraise for a Nepali staff member.

Your help is needed, please send your donations for this remarkable project.

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