New Project
Tashi Lhapug Health Care Centre
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Locals and monks whom the new health clinic will serve
Courtesy Evan Zaleschuk
Located near the headwaters of the Mekong River on the Za Chu River, Tashi Lhapug is a 10-hour
Jeep ride from
health care facilities at Jamseng in Zadoh.
The road is impassable in the winter.
The Tashi Lhapug Health Care Centre will provide traditional Tibetan medical care to the 8,000
people in the village and outlying areas.
From the minutes of the Gaden Relief Projects board meeting in October, 2006:
'For most people living in the area of Tashi Lhapug it is too far to get medical help from Jamseng
or
Zadoh City.
Rinpoche believes a small clinic should be built at the monastery in the near
future.
Lama Lochok is a wonderful
doctor at Tashi Lhapug and there are three other lamas who
know Tibetan
medicine
well.
Tashi Lhapug has
plenty of land for a clinic and you don't need a
permit
for a small building.
Lama Lochok's
house
is a
de facto clinic now and people from the area
come
all the time. He is a very
important lama and is
head of
the school.
He does so much, but
he is
suffering without having space and
time for himself. Building a
small clinic will give
him
some privacy.'
More as this project develops.
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Tashi Lhapug, Eastern Tibet
Dr Robert Chase examining monks in medical tent 
Maps and photos courtesy Gaden Relief Projects
