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Tashi Lhapug Health Care Centre

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.

 

 

 


Above: People the Tashi Lhapug Health Care Centre will help, Mekong headwaters, waterfall. Photos courtesy Evan Zaleschuk

 

 

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