{"id":191,"date":"2012-12-13T05:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T05:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cglf.org\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2016-12-29T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T12:09:00","slug":"healthcare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cglf.org\/projects\/healthcare","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering, it is an image of death.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Buddha<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We support a variety of healthcare projects aimed at providing immediate delivery of treatments where needed, as well as sustaining a longer-term healthcare improvement within Nepal, through our <a href=\"#1\">Vajra Varahi Healthcare Clinic<\/a>, our annual <a href=\"#2\">Dental and Medical Camps<\/a>, as well as our ongoing <a href=\"#3\">Tibetan Medicine Training Program.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Vajra Varahi Healthcare Clinic (VVHC)<\/h4>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBe kind whenever possible. It is always possible.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Dalai Lama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-412\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-40.jpg\" alt=\"g-40\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-41.jpg\" alt=\"g-41\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-418\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-39.jpg\" alt=\"g-39\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/38-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-508\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/38-s.jpg\" alt=\"38-s\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Project_Factsheet_VVHC.pdf\">Read the Project Factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vajra Varahi Healthcare Clinic is a project inspired by Kyabg\u00f6n Phakchok Rinpoche to put \u201cCompassion Into Action\u201d. Our clinic in Chapagaon, south of the Kathmandu Valley co-ordinates delivery of effective low cost and free healthcare to those who need it most.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-37-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"g-37\" width=\"189\" height=\"247\" \/>VVHC\u2019s vision is \u201cmaking accessible and effective healthcare, a reality for everyone\u201d. They aim to put this into practice through sustainable projects and sharing thoroughly researched information about treatments of common ailments from different medical traditions.<\/p>\n<p>They work alongside volunteer practitioners and supporters from all over the world who treat patients using acupuncture and TCM, massage and sacro-cranial therapies and homoeopathy.<\/p>\n<h5>What makes Vajra Varahi healthcare special?<\/h5>\n<p>VVHC is unique in training our interpreters to international standards to support English speaking practitioners.This means that our patients and doctors can communicate fully and accurately with each other.<\/p>\n<p>VVHC is unique in offering a range of medical traditions under one roof. Practitioners are able to refer patients to each other, delivering the best mix of care to each patient and improving their own understanding of healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>VVHC\u2019s research aims are unique in that we will be able to compare the effectiveness not just of a particular treatment tradition \u2013 Tibetan, Ayurvedic, Chinese, Homoeopathic and Western medicines \u2013 but to compare them one against the other.<\/p>\n<p>VVHC\u2019s skill sharing is unique -we have trained twelve interpreters since we opened and two are learning acupuncture while they work, and four have studied and now deliver therapeutic massage.<\/p>\n<p>You can contribute by <a href=\"donate\">donating or <\/a><a href=\"contribute#volunteer\">volunteering<\/a> with us. What your donations will do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US$3.50 sponsors a single treatment<\/li>\n<li>US$30 pays a Tibetan, Homoeopathic or Ayurvedic doctor for two sessions, treating 40 patients<\/li>\n<li>US$50 buys another otoscope or blood pressure monitor<\/li>\n<li>US$100 will employ an interpreter for a month \u2013 and help a practitioner treat 480 patients!<\/li>\n<li>US$155 pays all clinic bills for a day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more from the <a title=\"Vajra Varahi Healthcare Clinic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vajravarahihealthcare.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">clinic\u2019s own website<\/a>. <a name=\"2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Dental &amp; Medical Camps<\/h4>\n<p><a name=\"2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great strides have been made in healthcare \u2013 the treatments available, and the supply and distribution of the treatments worldwide. However, many rural areas still suffer from lack of access to good quality healthcare, resulting in unnecessary suffering and death in many cases. As one of the poorest country in the world, villagers in rural Nepal <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-46-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"g-46\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>are unable to access reliable, quality medical doctors and dentists. Such \u201coutback\u201d postings are fraught with difficulties for the medical practitioners, and the mountainous landscape in Nepal pose a huge challenge for the delivery of effective medical and dental care to the villagers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-43-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"g-43\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>As part of our mission to benefit all those in need, Kyabg\u00f6n Phakchok Rinpoche initiated outreach dental and medical camps to remote areas of Nepal in 2006, with dentists from Singapore. Since then, we have held one dental and medical camp annually to different parts of Nepal, with the support of kind-hearted medical professionals from Singapore, Malaysia and Germany. Every mission is supported by the interpreters and staff from Vajravarahi Healthcare Clinic, and the monks from Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery (Boudhanath) and Pal Do-Ngak Nyida Mindrol Norbuling Monastery (Chapagaon). Local Nepali medical practitioners also lend their skills.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-47.jpg\" alt=\"g-47\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-48.jpg\" alt=\"g-48\" width=\"200\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This joint effort between medical practitioners of different race, faiths and background with our Nepal based volunteers and ordained sangha, is a showcase of how the language of compassion transcends cultural barriers. Since 2006, medical professionals have joined us in serving nearly 10,000 patients in Shivapuri, Pharping, Pokhara, Lumbini and Langtang. You can <a href=\"contribute\">help<\/a> too!<br \/>\n<a name=\"3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Tibetan Medicine Program &#8211; Serving the Community<\/h4>\n<p><a name=\"3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.\u201d<br \/>\n-Buddha<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-49.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-389 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-49.jpg\" alt=\"g-49\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-49.jpg 455w, https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-49-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-49-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a>This is a project that we support, as part of our Foundation\u2019s ongoing efforts to enable communities to access affordable, effective healthcare, improving their overall standard of living. This project is a brainchild of Kyabg\u00f6n Phakchok Rinpoche, and aims to provide training in Tibetan medicine to interested members of the ordained sangha as well as villagers from remote areas in Nepal who do not have access to quality healthcare treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The students will learn all aspects of Tibetan Medicine in traditional setting, including the making of medicine. This will enable them to serve and operate independently, especially in remote areas, where the doctors will have to make medicine from scratch using the available herbs in their surrounding area. Our choice of training them in Tibetan Medicine also stems from the fact that the medicine supply can also be self-sustaining, a necessity in remote areas of Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>After undergoing this training, these Tibetan doctors will then go on to serve the people at their respective monasteries and villagers, the wider community or at the Vajravarahi Healthcare Clinic in Chapagaon, thus providing continuing healthcare treatment to their respective communities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/g-51-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"g-51\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>We currently have ten students, comprising of laypeople and ordained monks and nuns, who are aiming to complete this rigorous seven-year training program. Sponsoring this program allows you to support up to ten students or more at one go, that would mean an equivalent of giving a medical scholarship for ten students, for this seven year program. That is just the direct benefit. Indirectly, your contribution will be able to help thousands, when these professional doctors graduate and go on to serve the sick and needy in the Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>USD$75 would <a href=\"contribute\">sponsor<\/a> one student for a month, including food, accommodation, educational supplies and teacher&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering, it is an image of death.\u201d \u2013 Buddha We support a variety of healthcare projects&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"moretag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/projects\/healthcare\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":279,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthcare - Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cglf.org\/projects\/healthcare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Healthcare - Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWithout health life is not life; 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