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Home » Individual dentists & doctors committed to come to Ladakh for the Medical/Dental project in 2010.

Individual dentists & doctors committed to come to Ladakh for the Medical/Dental project in 2010.

March 7, 2010

Dr. Myra Elliott has committed to bringing another Dental / Medical team to Ladakh in August 2010.  This will include a major cataract surgical team led by Dr. Ranjana Sanjay Mathur, director of the Singapore National Eye Center. Dr. Marcus Ang diagnosed over 50 cases of severe cataract conditions during the 2009 expedition and now we are going to try and treat each and every one of them with this skilled team of surgical specialists.

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Dr. Elliott & Dr. Ang
 
 

Dr. Chua Yang, a noted gynecologist and veteran of the 2009 team that came to Nubra Valley is mobilizing a team of woman’s health care specialists to return to Nubra Valley in 2010 to implement the first ever wide spread cervical cancer screening program.  This tragic disease is the number one cause of fatal illness among Ladakhi woman and Dr. Chua Yang is determined to implement a regular screening program to diagnose the illness in it’s early, treatable stages.

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Dr Chua Yang
A Clinic for Woman – Singapore

http://www.aclinicforwomen.com.sg

Dentists:

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Ally Ellmers and Kate Arlidge are final year dental students from Dunedin, New Zealand.  They are setting out on an adventure to India in June>July that includes volunteering two weeks in Ladakh and helping with the Himalayan Dental Project. We look forward to their arrival and will be utilizing their dental skills and enthusiasm to examine and treat young children in another remote region of Ladakh.

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Dr. Madeleine Aslund

 

I am a Specialist Periodontist who trained in London, UK, now living and working in Vienna, Austria. I wish to bring my knowledge and skill to benefit the people of Ladakh. I think the most sustainable way of helping the local population is to train authoritative members of the local public to be able to provide basic dental care and be able to teach the local population preventative oral health behaviour. I happened to come across Mr Bill Kite’s project which aims exactly at this. When I read about it and saw the previous reports I felled immediately compelled to get in contact and join the team. I will stay from 15 August to 10 September in Ladakh working with and training the local school nurse Ms Yangchan Dolma and carrying out any other dental work that may be needed. In the meantime I had so much support and information through Mr Bill Kite and Dr. Jason Doten by email/mail that I cannot wait to get started.
I am now super excited to travel to this beautiful region and I am immensely looking forward to meeting Ms Yangchan Dolma, Mr Bill Kite and team and the people of Ladakh.

 

Dr. Steve Rogers is a renown specialist in oral & maxillofacial surgery.  Dr Rogers lives in Bend, Oregon and has traveled extensively in the Himalayas of Nepal offering his sophisticated skills to the people of the Himalayas.  Dr. Rogers is planning to come to Ladakh in 2010 and treat some of the more complex cases we have encountered during our remote village examination expeditions.

 

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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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Dr Quek Swee Chong

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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
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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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