Tibet Charity Emergency Medical Fund was created in 2008 to help those patients requiring treatment for life threatening illnesses yet don’t have the money to do so.

It all started with a monk who walked into my office in the beginning of that year asking for some money to carry out some treatment for some illness. At that time as we did not have separate money for such purposes, I had to politely refuse. After a few months time I came to know that the monk has passed away.

That really gave a big jolt to me.A few thousand of rupees could have saved his life if I had the money at that point of time.

So when Ms Elizabeth Zimmermann of Save Tibet Austria came to my office, I told her that story and I told her how guilty I felt for not being in a position to save the life of that monk. A life of someone is surely much more precious than few thousand rupees.

Then we discussed means to avoid such incidence in future and she came up with this novel idea of setting up Emergency Medical Fund so that people with similar problem can be helped.

Since then Save Tibet in general and Elisabeth Zimmermann in particular has been working very hard to raise some fund for this project.

Because of their kind support, we have been able to bring hope into the lives of some people who could have easily given up due to lack of necessary fund to carry out the required treatment.

We are writing down the names of the people who have received help from us from this Fund..

Sno	Name	Nature of ailment	Address
1.	Lobsang Choedak	Heart Problem	Norbulingka, Dharamsala
2.	Ven. Kalsang	TB	Gangtok
3.	Ven. Yeshi Wangyal	Chronic Kidney Disease	Mundgod
4.	Gyaltsen Topgyal	Renal Failure	Mundgod
5.	Lobsang	Child Birth	Dharamsala
6.	Migmar	Gernitominary TB	Norbulingka, Dharamsala
7.	Tenzin Kachoe	Acute abdominal Pain	Mundgod
8.	Samdup	Gall stone	Mcloed Ganj, Dharamsala
9.	Dawa Dolma	Brain Hemorrhage	Mcloed Ganj, Dharamsala

- 17th July 2010

On 6 May 2010, Tibet Charity Health Care Section organized a talk on the prevention of type 2 diabetes to members of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, and the Tibetan community living in and around Gangkyi at the Gangkyi Mess.
Margrethe, a nurse from Denmark and currently teaching the new batch of home-nurses here, did a PowerPoint presentation, and Mrs. Tsering Lhamo, in-charge of the Tibet Charity Health Care Section, served as a translator for people who can’t understand English.

During this talk, we found seven cases of diabetes, five people with high blood pressure and four people with high blood sugar levels. Those with high blood pressure and high blood sugar where given a ‘health talk’ about their diet by our four home nurses, who work fulltime at the Tibet Charity Health Care Section. The five people with diabetes will be given a special talk by Margrethe from Denmark on another day.

This was followed by checking fasting blood sugar of 70 people, of ages 40 and above on 7 May 2010.

11th May 2010

Women’s Health Education talk given to Upper TCV girls from class 9, 10, 11 and 12. One hour talk and then ½ an hour for question and answer. It went on very well and the school authority has asked me to give talk on the same subject to girls of class 6, 7 and 8.

- 20th April 2010

St .John Ambulance started to teach First Aid to our new group of Home Nurses and the Students from our education section of Tibet Charity for 2days.This time Marion and Des Kitto have come. They have just come to make a survey to continue their First Aid training for another three years in Himachal Pradesh.

After seeing the tremendous benefit the Home Nurse girls had on the old and sick in the region, Tibet Charity Health Section decided to train few more girls from areas outside Dharamsala so that the people under similar problems elsewhere could enjoy the benefit.

The Home Nurse project was first started in 2006 with 6 girls and two local Indians. The idea was to provide necessary assistance to the sick and old having no one else looking after them. It has been generally seen that people of old ages when they fall ill prefer to stay at home rather than spend times in the hospitals. When they do that they experience great many difficulties. So

the home nurse girls that we have visit them and provide necessary assistance in terms of taking them to hospitals if required. They then make sure that the patients follow the instructions of the doctors. The girls also clean their homes, give them bathes, cut their nails etc. They do everything a good child is expected to do towards his/her parents when they become old or sick.
Now with the new trainees, we hope to bring similar benefit to the old and sick of regions outside Dharamsala. Most of the trainees we have are from remote regions where there are no good hospitals.

The training of the second group of Home Nursing girls started from 19/03/2010 with 9 girls and the training will go on for 18 months. 5 girls are from Upper TCV, one girl from Mainpat Tibetan settlement (MP), 1 girl is from Tenzingang, Bomdila and 2 girls from Ladak. (AP).The 4 girls from TCV are already working with Old People’s Home in TCV and now this extra Home Nursing training will help them to gain more knowledge to serve the old people more efficiently. One girl from TCV is presently without any job.Hopefully TCV will be able to provide her with a job after the completion of the training. The two girls from the Tibetan settlements will go back to work in the Old People’s Home in their respective settlements after the training is completed.

During the course of their training, these girls will receive instructions and training from experts from various parts of the world besides

Dr. Gunver Juul and our own Mrs. Tsering Lhamo.

Lakha Lama, the founder and Chairman of Tibet Charity met these girls and appreciated their enthusiasm to support people in need. More than the technical knowledge they receive at Tibet Charity, he asked them to develop compassionate feeling towards the sick and old.

We wish the trainees a very best of luck in their training and we hope that they will all pass out with flying colours.

- 13th April 2010