Providing free medical care in rural Nepal On a bus filled with good people, good humour and medical supplies, we careened out of Kathmandu and on towards Ale Gaun, a small village perched in the hills out west and the setting for our first health camp. The sky, thick and swirling overhead, brought a cleansing […]
Providing free medical care in rural Nepal Yesterday, Saturday 11th April the 2015 Health Camp Team came together for the first time for the pre camp meeting. It was wonderful to see a group of individual volunteers and health providers from 5 different countries unite and bond to become, what we hope will be a […]
Providing free medical care in rural Nepal With the dawning of the New Year, planning for our 2015 Health Camps steps up a gear as our team starts coming together, and the list of things ‘to do’ gets ever longer. While a little early to confirm the Nepali healthcare team, our international medical team is […]
Day 0: 12th April 2014 It’s 9.00 a.m. Saturday in Kathmandu, the weekend before the Nepali New Year: A time for new beginnings and new adventures. In a quiet sunny courtyard about 500 meters from the Boudhanath Stupa in the North of the city, volunteers for Himalayan Quests Annual Health Camps are starting to gather […]
In the spring of 2013 Himalayan Quests organised and ran health camps in rural villages in the mid west of Nepal, offering locals access to health care not readily accessible in the area. A combined team of American and Nepali health professionals, supported by local youth club members, offered general health, dental, eye and midwifery services to […]
