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Dr Tsering Gurung and “Happy Teeth” Dental Clinic in Nepal

January 31, 2015

We are very pleased to have formed an alliance of capability and objective with a wonderful dentist in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2014. Dr Tsering Gurung has a very modern and productive dental clinic in Kathmandu and this has enabled us to send some of our dental volunteers from Ladakh to Kathmandu to do screening camps at several of the humanitarian organizations that we’ve supported for a number of years. In particular, our team of dentists from Dundee Scotland screened all of the 150+ young Nepalese children who have been rescued from deplorable situations in corrupt orphanages by The Umbrella Foundation. Dr Tsering Gurung treated all of those young people that our team identified as having serious dental conditions in her clinic located nearby the Umbrella Foundation hostels where the kids were living.

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Dr Tsering Gurung

Based on that successful collaboration and our shared objective of providing basic dental care for people who cannot afford to pay for even the most basic oral health care, The Himalayan Dental Project and Dr Gurung formed a mutually beneficial alliance. Our second major cooperative effort was in conjunction with 20 bright young students from The Jakarta International School that had come to Nepal for a trekking expedition as well as a motivation to actively participate in a meaningful community service project. We worked together with Dr Gurung in organizing a dental camp for almost 500 people that came from local schools, Buddhist monasteries and orphanages and were able to identify over 150 of them that had serious dental conditions that Dr Gurung and our resident dentist in Ladakh, Dr Marie Nordstrom were able to treat at Dr Gurung’s clinic in Kathmandu.

Right before the winter season in 2014 made trekking to the high Tibetan plateau region of Manang located on the north side of the Annapurna Himalayas in Nepal impossible, Dr Gurung and Dr Nordstrom led a group from the Manang Woman’s Empowerment group to Manang for a dental camp that successfully provided dental treatments to people living in that extremely remote area of Nepal. We certainly look forward to building on this friendship and alliance in the years to come.

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Vision Testimonial

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All those associated with The Himalayan Vision Project are grateful for the tireless and heroic efforts of the teams of international vision health care physicians and optometrists who have brought vastly improved quality of life to countless men, women and children of Ladakh over the past 7 years.

Our objectives and capabilities have taken a quantum leap forward by virtue of an alliance formed with the prestigious LV Prasad Eye Institute located in Hyderabad. This invaluable collaboration was made possible by the friendship and shared ideals of one of the world's most renowned and admired cornea and stem cell specialists, Dr Virender Sangwan. Dr Sangwan came to the aid of a Ladakhi police officer who was suffering from an extremely serious eye condition and through the successful treatment of that very fortunate individual has become a friend and inspiration to us all.

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Womens Health testimonial

Dr Quek Swee Chong

Dr Quek Swee Chong

MBBCh, BAO (Dublin) MRCOG (UK) FAMS (Singapore)

Dr Quek Swee Chong is a specialist in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the ACS Clinic for Women Gleneagles Medical Centre. He was formerly Senior Consultant & Head, Pre-invasive Disease & Screening Unit, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital. He serves on the board of the International Federation of Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology. A former president of the Society of Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology of Singapore, he now sits on the present council.

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Clinic Testimonial

Fully functional humanitarian health care
for the people of Ladakh.

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama
blessing the Lamdon Clinic

The Lamdon Clinic now serves as "Basecamp" for our ambitious goal of bringing world class dental, vision and women's health care to the people of Ladakh. Not only will we continue to offer cost free treatments for all who come to our doors, but we will now also be sending mobile screening teams of medical professionals to drive or hike to the remotest villages and settlements in the Indus, Nubra and Zanskar Valley regions of Ladakh to educate, examine and if necessary transport patients who need treatment and rehabilitation back to our main clinic complex in Leh.

We draw our guidance from the compassionate inspiration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama who advocates doing all that is possible for those needlessly suffering or deprived of their basic human right of adequate medical care regardless of their religious loyalties, gender, citizenship or financial means.

We were greatly honored when His Holiness the Dalai Lama came to our clinic in 2012 and blessed it's capabilities and aspirations.

Coverage shown on Tibet Television network of His Holiness blessing the Lamdon Clinic

Dental Testimonial

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Julley everyone!  I'm Dr Marie Nordstrom, the resident dentist at the Himalayan Dental Project Clinic in Leh, Ladakh.  Two years ago I was working at a humanitarian dental clinic in Cambodia. When it was time to move on I was browsing around on the internet searching for another inspirational opportunity where I could volunteer my dental abilities and I came across the Himalayan Dental Project. I sent off an email expressing my interest to volunteer and within a few hours I had a reply from the project coordinator Bill Kite inviting me to join the the clinic team in Ladakh. After his first email I instinctively had a feeling that this would turn into something really significant and decided to book my flight to India and then up to Ladakh.  A short time later I found myself at more than 3,500m above sea level in the Himalayas with spectacular mountain views

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