In the presence of the Honorable President Mrs. Bidhya Devi Bhandarijiu, Dr Kate Yarrow, founder and chair of Doctors For Nepal has received an…
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Covid update from Nepal
News in from Dr Kamal who is working at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu. He has sent in a picture of the DFN donated oxygen concentrator being used in…
Emergency equipment now in use
As a result of our emergency appeal for funds to buy desperately needed oxygen cylinders and concentrators for remote regions of Nepal, our…
Oxygen equipment now arrived in remote areas
We are SO happy to announce that oxygen equipment has now arrived from Kathmandu to ALL the remote locations we are supporting – Mugu District…
Oxygen equipment arrives in Nepal
DONATE TO COVID NEPAL APPEAL We are VERY pleased to announce that, through some of our supporters’ amazing donations and the extremely quick…
Covid news from Dr Prakash
News just in from Dr Prakash, one of our graduated Doctors For Nepal, who is currently working as a doctor in the remote region of Doti in north…
Urgent Nepal Covid-19 Appeal
TO DONATE CLICK HERE We desperately need your support to help us tackle the Covid disaster that is rapidly spreading across Nepal. There has been a…
PPE arrives in Mugu
We are very pleased to announce that a large amount of PPE, the money for which was raised entirely from our online auction at the end of 2020, has…
DFN sending PPE to Nepal
As a result of our online auction held at the end of last year, we have raised enough funds specifically to purchase and distribute PPE for our…
Kamal gets vaccinated
Kamal has had his 1st dose of covid vaccine. He writes “Nepal launched its largest immunisation campaign on Wednesday with its 1st covishield…
Kamal’s short story about poverty and Covid-19
Kamal has just had a short story published on Setopati’s website – Nepal’s most reputable digital newspaper with over 1.7 million…
Nahakul saves young boy’s tongue
A 5-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after cutting his tongue while bathing in a stony river. The boy fell out of a tree and bit his tongue which…
Lalit recovers from Covid-19
Dr Lalit, our first ever DFN funded student, now a doctor undertaking his postgraduate education in obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt, is…
NEWS FROM OUR DOCTORS FIGHTING COVID-19
Dr Nahakul and Dr Meena are both in remote regions of Nepal and have yet to register any cases of COVID-19 in their small hospitals. Nahakul says…
Exciting news from Dr Nahakul
We are delighted to announce some great news from Dr Nahakul, who is currently working in his remote village in the west of Nepal. “I had my job…
Santosh catches dengue fever
Our second year medical student Santosh has returned from a placement in a rural community in Makawanpur District called Ramanthali. He was only…
Dr Meena saving lives on the side a mountain
Our first female DFN sponsored student, Dr Meena, has shared the extraordinary story of how she saved the life of a mother and baby, whilst working…
DFN supports first midwifery degree-level course in Nepal
Our Founder, Dr Kate Yarrow, has just returned from an extremely busy and successful week in Nepal. We can now proudly announce that Doctors for…
Prakash shows us around Patan Hospital WATCH THE VIDEO
During the last DFN Trustee visit to Nepal, we filmed Prakash giving us a guided tour around Patan Hospital, Kathmandu, when he introduced us to…
News from Meena in Mugu District Hospital
We have just heard from Meena who tells us about two different emergency cases she has been involved with at Mugu District Hospital. Her encounters…
Student nurse Apsara at work on the ward
Apsara is one of our two nursing students in their second year of studies for a 3-year nursing degree course at the Nepal Institute of Health…
The positive impact of training doctors for rural Nepal: Dr Lalit’s work
Lalit’s news: January 2017: “First, I would like to wish a ‘Merry Christmas’ and Happy New year 2017 to all my…
What impact does one doctor have? Dr Lalit’s story
I am working with Nick Simmons Institute (NSI – and NGO that funds extra doctors in Government hospitals) in Taplejung district- the most…
The Nepal Appeal
Doctors for Nepal has launched The Nepal Appeal, to raise funds in the immediate aftermatch of the recent earthquake, and to aid with the assistance…