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Founded
  
1971

Phone
  
0189 222 2053

Number of beds
  
45

Website
  
[1]

Established
  
1971

Tibetan Delek Hospital

Location
  
Himachal Pradesh, India

Coordinates
  
Gangchen Kyishong 176215 Dharamsala

Address
  
Gangchen Kyishong, Kangra District, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh 176215

Tibetan delek hospital


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. It practices social assistance, mainly using allopathic Western medicine. In 2013, the Kochon Prize, Stop TB Partnership is attributed to the Delek hospital, but China is pressuring the WHO.

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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 Dr. Richard Chaisson, and the Associazione Italiana per la Solidarietà fra i Popoli (AISPO).

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

Location

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

Organization

The hospital includes:

  • 45 beds, in three services which one is for tuberculosis patients.
  • a home for the elderly
  • a delivery room
  • a bioassay laboratory
  • a pharmacy
  • equipment: an endoscopy room, x-ray, ultrasound device (a radiologist is present 2 days of the week)
  • a surgery room using the services of volunteer surgeons a few weeks in the year.
  • The hospital staff, composed of Tibetans, speak Tibetan, Hindi and English, includes:

  • 4 permanent doctors
  • a biologist
  • a pharmacist
  • 2 dentists
  • nurses
  • administrators
  • cooks for patients
  • The hospital is equipped with a conference room for meetings of hospital staff and conferences (ministers Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and traditional medicine).

    References

    Tibetan Delek Hospital Wikipedia