The Kunde Hospital Needs Your Help !

The Kunde Hospital was established in 1966, in Kunde Village just north of Namche Bazaar. It was a major project at that time and now services over 10,000 Sherpa's within the Khumbu District. It has a staff of 4 (a  Doctor, 2 medical assistants and 1 trained nurse / midwife ). It has 15 beds for inpatients and offers a wide range of medical services for the Sherpa community.

The hospital and medical services are primarily funded through contributions from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation and grants. The hospital offers 24hrs emergency cover to the community with hospital hours as follows: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9am – 5pm; Wednesday 9am – 1pm; Saturday Closed . 

The Hospital administers a number of immunization programmes. These include: Vitamin A, Polio and standard child immunization. Kunde Hospital has a number of key facilities which helps to provide the much needed medical services. These include an x-ray machine, oxygen concentrators, ECG machine, an ultrasound, and fetal monitors. The hospital does lack adequate facilities for testing bloods and storage of blood products.

The Extreme Everest 8850 Project would like to help also with the implementation of an oral higyene program, bringing 5,000 toothbrushes to deliver at the Kunde Hospital. 

For the Sherpas of the Everest, or Khumbu, region of Nepal, keeping healthy is an uphill struggle.
The climate is harsh, the area isolated and facilities few and far between – sanitation, health clinics and even roads are very hard to come by. That's why the one hospital in the region is vitally important to the people there.

Funded mostly by foreign donations, the Kunde Hospital is staffed entirely by locals - people who know the mountains and the Sherpa people very well.

The Extreme Everest Project will spend several days in the area providing information to the local people about water treatment, food-borne illnesses, sources of contamination in the drinking water, bacteria - viruses related information, family planning and preventative medicine.

Your donations are extremely important to help this hospital with medical supplies for the Sherpa people !

                                                         Thanks for your help !!!

Listen the comments from the 1st Sherpa Doctor at the Kunde Hospital ....

Khumjung School - A Better Education for the Future !!

Khumjung School was built in 1961 as the first major project of the Himalayan Trust. It started off as a two classroom school but now caters for pre-school, primary and secondary sections with over 350 students. Currently there are about  25 schools along the trek from Kathmandu to Everest Base Camp, scattered in small nepalese villages within the Khumbu District. These schools were initially staffed and funded through the Trust until 1972 when the government took over the administration of all schools and education in the area. The Trust has a formal agreement with the Nepalese Government to continue to provide teaching resources and support to schools within the Solo Khumbu Region. However, supplies and educational materials are always welcome.

The Extreme Everest Expedition wants to help with books, a few laptop computers, maps and other educational materials the school currently needs.

Please help us in this endeavor to achieve a better education for Nepal's children - Thanks !!!

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