Rima Community Leaders
Western doctors attend a pregnant woman
First meeting with Nomads in 2004
Learning to measure blood pressure
At Rinpoche’s request, in 2004 two of his Western students
travelled to Tibet to try to find ways to reduce maternal mortality in his monastery area. Local nomads
and village leaders requested that a clinic be built and doctors
trained to help meet the health needs in the community.
Midwife gives childbirth training
In 2005 researchers and Western doctors brought clean birthing kits
and other medical supplies and helped train Tibetan health care workers.
After receiving a grant from the Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation and generous donations from Rinpoche’s students, in 2006 construction of a new clinic building got underway with a land blessing from Achu Rinpoche.
Achu Rinpoche blesses the clinic site
Ayang Monastery monks make tormas
The clinic was finished in 2007 and with grants from The Rotary
Foundation, Direct Relief International and personal donations, medical
equipment and an ambulance were purchased.
Newly finished clinic in 2007
Clinic's ambulance
By the summer of 2008 the village doctors were treating 15-60
patients every day.
Doctors in the pharmacy
Newborn at clinic in birthing kit blanket
