Tibetan Delek Hospital

Tibetan Delek Hospital
Geography
Location Himachal Pradesh, India
Services
Beds 45
History
Founded 1971
Links
Website

The Tibetan Delek Hospital is a Tibetan hospital founded in 1971 and located in Dharamsala in Northern India. It serves the Tibetan residents, and local community in the region, including tourists from around the world.[1] It practices social assistance, mainly using allopathic Western medicine.[2] In 2013, the Kochon Prize, Stop TB Partnership is attributed to the Delek hospital, but China is pressuring the WHO.[3][4]

History

Delek Hospital was built through donations and provide care at a low cost to patients, while taking care of low-income patients.

It was founded in 1971 by the Dalai Lama to give allopathic medical care to Tibetan refugees and the Indian community living in Dharamsala, a city of Northern India.

In June 2008, the Delek hospital began a program to improve the control of tuberculosis in the Tibetan diaspora, supported by the Johns Hopkins University with the participation of Dr. Zorba Paster and Richard Chaissonet,[5] and the Associazione Italiana per la Solidarietà fra i Popoli (AISPO).[6]

The Rotary Club of Sunshine, based in Australia, participates in the financing of the program of tuberculosis control for Tibetan refugees.[7]

Location

It lies between Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj, near the Men-Tsee-Khang conducive to collaboration between these medicines.

Organization

The hospital includes:

The hospital staff, composed of Tibetans, speak Tibetan, Hindi and English, includes:

The hospital is equipped with a conference room for meetings of hospital staff and conferences (ministers Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and traditional medicine).

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Oren Family, Volunteering in India, IsraAid
  2. ↑ Bertrand Odelys, Dharamsala, Chroniques tibétaines, Albin Michel, 2003, ISBN 2226142592, p 140
  3. ↑ (English) Richard Finney, Tibetan Groups Petition WHO for Hospital Award Radio Free Asia, 2013-12-30
  4. ↑ Betsy McKay, TB Prize Selection Gets Caught in Politics, Wall Street Journal, 26 novembre 2013
  5. ↑ Delek Hospital details Plan to Combat TB in the Tibetan Community
  6. ↑ Health Department holds conference to control TB in Tibetan community, 11 October 2010
  7. ↑ The Rotarian sept. 2005, p 26 "[…] the Rotary Club of Sunshine, Australia, funds a tuberculosis control program for Tibetan refugees at Delek Hospital in Dharamsala, India."

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