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The Kāng Huì Hospital is situated in Maniganggo, a small town in
the Yalong District within the Dêgê County in the Ganzi Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. This project is a
result of the combined effort from The Reverend Rin Jin Thar
Chhin Rinpoche, Peter Chum, Vivian Fung, Iris Chum and Alexandria
Fu. This private, non-profit project aims at providing health
care services at minimal or no cost to the local Tibetan
residents particularly those who are neediest.
Kāng Huì Hospital picked Maniganggo as its home because the
location ideally lies in the crossroads leading to Zhouqian,
Qinghai, Dêgê and even Lhasa. The hospital is now manned by a
doctor practicing Tibetan medicine and it is equipped with a
Tibetan medicine vault. The hospital would from time to time
run Free Consultation Days so those in need of medical
treatments but cannot afford such may take advantage of the free
consultation and medicine. Local Tibetan residents commonly
suffer from influenza, pneumonia, gastric ulcer, gynecological
diseases, senile disorder, dental problems, gastrointestinal
disease, osteoarthritis and renal diseases. The hospital
currently provides only Tibetan medicine but would include
Western and Chinese medicine at a later stage.
Since
Tibetan medicine specializes mainly in treating chronic
illnesses, so patients suffering from casualty or requiring
surgery would not obtain the treatments they require from the
hospital now. Therefore, we contact doctors practicing western
medicine as well as dentists to volunteer at our facilities from
time to time. The project has also funded five students to
study Tibetan medicine at the Sichuan Tibetan Language School,
one student to study Chinese and Western medicine at the Chengdu
University of TCM. After graduation, they shall be serving
patients at Kāng Huì as well as patients in other villages.
Within the next five years, we expect to train and gather a
minimum of thirty doctors to serve patients at Kāng Huì.
Our long term goal: To build a Tibetan Medical School as well
as a Tibetan medicine plant. With a Tibetan medical school in
place, more doctors practicing Tibetan medicine would be
trained. These doctors would then be dispatched to the poor and
remote villages in the mountains to serve those who are deprived
of proper medical care. With a Tibetan medicine plant in place,
higher quality of drugs would be produced to meet the ever
increasing demand within the local Tibetan communities. The
hospital still lacks fundamental medical amenities such as
equipment commonly found in operating theatres and those for
sterilization. In order for Kāng Huì to better equip itself and
to provide fuller services to its patients, more material or
financial aid is needed.
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1. Funding to
build the Tibetan Medical School, soft/hard ware for mini
clinics and emergency clinical posts. The hospital’s current
monthly expenditures amount to about RMB 30,000 and that
includes paying for the doctor, his assistant, drugs, hydro,
fuels as well as food.
2. Funding for the
training of doctors.
3. Recruitment of
short and long term medical personnel to station in the Tibetan
region.
4. To raise drugs
and medical equipment.
5. To raise clothing, sunglasses and health aids.
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