Healing with Compassion
October 9 2017
Lack of trust in the unfamiliar is a problem for a large number of Nepalese people — and a roadblock to receiving the health care they require. If they do not trust the provider or if cultural diver...
Health
Karuna-Shechen provides medical services and health education to individuals and families through clinics, and mobile outreach programs. The people we serve live in remote nomad regions of Eastern Tibet, the outskirts and slums of Kathmandu, and in rural villages in India and Nepal. All of them belong to communities in great need of services.
“If humanitarian organizations developed more preventative health initiatives, there would be 30% less disease.” (WHO)
Health Projects
Filling a Gap, Curing Tuberculosis in Nepal
Many of us think tuberculosis is a disease of the past, but it remains widespread – and life-threatening –…
Women’s Health in India
In India, women and girls make-up 70% of all our health care patients. We pay particular attention to their…
Health Care Services in Tibet
Karuna-Shechen has built and/or supports numerous clinics in Eastern Tibet that provide allopathic and Tibetan medicine. We also fund…
Health Care Services in India
In India, Shechen Medical Center, Mobile Clinics and Camps provide medical care for approximately 80,000 people a year. Women…
Elder Care
Many elderly people in Tibet and Nepal are destitute, without families, living alone in harsh conditions. In Nepal, the…
Health Care Services in Nepal
In Nepal, Karuna-Shechen is creating sustainable ways to provide fundamental medical services to the under-served through the Shechen Clinic…
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) in Nepal
It is estimated that 25% of Nepali women suffer from Uterine Prolapse, or Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP), a condition…
