During one of the visits of the Home Nurse Girls to the sick and elderly people of the region, they came across Tsering Kyi, a woman aged 73 living all by herself near Old People’s Home. She has no husband or children looking after her. Her living condition is fond to be very shocking. She just has a roof above her head with no electricity in the house. She has been using candle light at night.

She was also found to have some infected wound on her neck which requires immediate dressing. When Mrs. Tsering Lhamo, In-charge of our Health Care Section visited her she came to know that there was a huge contracture formed by some burn injury last year. The scar formed by the treatment last year is infected again and requires dressing once every two days.

She also has 4 stray dogs to look after and the place looks very dirty.

Urgent help is required to provide her with basic requirements of life. We also need to get electricity connected to her house.

Any help forthcoming shall be deeply appreciated.

- 26th November 2009

Tibet Charity Health Care Section visited TCV Suja and CST Chauntra where special talk was organised on Rabies, Women’s Health, HIV/AIDS/STDs and Hepatitis B.

We started with TCV Suja School where there were 1676 students and 175 staff members. We did the power point presentation on Rabies first, followed by question and answer session. There were so many interesting and clever questions asked after the presentation.

In the afternoon a special discussion on Women’s health with 709 girl students and 30 ladies teachers and home mothers was held. We had a separate talk with the teachers and home mothers as well. The home mothers and teachers were advised to pay more attention to the teenage girls and boys. Special health issues related to the teenagers were also discussed. We were

happy to see school girls and the staff asking many questions after the presentation. We felt that we need to spend more time in the school discussing women’s problems.

Our Health Section In-charge also talked about HIV/ Aids and Hepatitis B to the students and staff as this is a growing menace in the small Tibetan community. She also stressed on the need to pay more attention to their prevention rather than the treatment.

On Friday, 20th November, at 7am we did Fasting Blood Sugar test of 50 staff members who were 35 to 64 years of age for Type 2 Diabetes. We gave advice on diet, because the Type 2 Diabetes is due to eating wrong food. There were three staff members with high blood sugar, but two of them are known Diabetes patient and are not on any treatment. They were explained the

complications of Diabetes & high blood pressure and the danger of not being on any treatment.

A similar program was arranged at CST Chauntra where there were 365 students and 41 staff members.

After seeing the response of the students and the staff in the two schools, we feel that more talks need to be organise in various schools on topics related to their health.

We thank the administrations in the two schools for organizing this program for us in their schools.

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25th November 2009.

The St. John's Ambulance from Wales, UK, conducted a Basic Life Support training for 101 students and staff of Tibet Charity. The training was conducted in three sessions of two hours each, with the group being divided into three groups. Basic Life Support training consists of training in removing foreign bodies, treating epileptic patients, arresting bleeding and resussitation.

This session is designed for lay people to provide First Aid at home and outside before the patient can be taken to the hospital. "I feel this kind of training is very important for everyone. Now these students can

help someone who has been in an accident before they can be taken to the hospital," Tsering Lhamo, coordinator for St. John's Ambulance's activities here in Himachal Pradesh.

In its 6th year at Tibet Charity, this First Aid Camp is a regular annual feature as part of a tour of major areas in the Kangra district region. "I am willing to conduct this training in the community if people are interested," said Ms. Lhamo. At the end of the training, the participants were awarded certificates for Basic Life Support training.

The Director of Tibet Charity India inaugurated the home for sick in Chandigarh on 7th January 2009.

Chandigarh is a well known city in the state of Punjab in India. The city has some of the best hospitals in the region because of which many Tibetans who are seriously ill are referred to various hospitals in the city – the most prominent one being the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, more commonly referred to as PGI.

Many of these patients who come to the city for treatments are new comers from Tibet who come with various ailments. Many fall sick while traveling on foot across the Himalayas to escape the hardships there. When they come to the city for treatments, they face great difficulty as they don’t speak any other language other than Tibetan. Even for those who can speak Hindi or English,

some of the hospitals are so big and crowded that they face difficulty in locating the right hospital or the right doctor.

So to help these patients the Sangye Menlha (Buddha of Medicines) Trust was formed with some volunteers to help them in getting treatment. The rooms are too expensive in the city for many of those who have recently arrived from Tibet and for those with little money. In order to help these patients to have a proper room to stay in during the periods of their treatments, the Sangye Menlha Trust approached Tibet Charity for help. Tibet Charity in Denmark has kindly agreed to pay for the rent of the building. This will greatly benefit all those Tibetans coming to Chandigarh from all over India.

We thank Tibet Charity Denmark for their kind help.