This charity has been set up to support the training
costs of selected medical students from incredibly poor backgrounds in Nepal. In return, they pledge to work for an agreed
period post qualification as doctors in rural isolated areas of Nepal.
Having worked for Médecins Sans
Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the far west of Nepal, Kate Yarrow (founder of Doctors For Nepal) saw for
herself the terrible conditions in which most people live; this not only includes lack of food and clean water, but almost
non-existent health care. This is partly due to the physical isolation and harsh environment of the communities, but also
to political unrest and the impact of long term civil war. Hence it is difficult for the ministry of health to attract doctors
to work for these communities.
With the end of the civil war, international charities
have wound up their projects in the area, leaving remote communities to fend for themselves. This leaves the government to
provide medical doctors and health care for communities that are too often neglected. Although we cannot right this immediately,
in the long term we can empower the communities by providing them with doctors from their own country, and their own communities.
Doctors For Nepal will provide the finances to train local people as medical doctors who will in return be contracted to
work in these difficult areas for an agreed number of years after graduation. Their presence should vastly improve the services
available in these poor mountain areas, providing a brighter future for so many vulnerable patients.
