The late Sir Edmund Hillary^*  KG ONZ KBE requested
"Help me help the Sherpas"

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Kunde Hospital 

For more than 34 years, The Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation (SEHF) has funded and monitored the operation of the Kunde Hospital and appointed eight teams of doctors and each year has visited the Hospital. Reports have been submitted to CIDA on an annual basis. Since 1987-88 the SEHF have worked closely with medical clinics and its health workers with the objectives of passing on increased responsibility in certain health areas to them.

Dr. Kami Temba Sherpa is now in his eighth year as the Senior Medical Officer and Chief of Medicine at Kunde Hospital. Dr. Temba worked as a paramedic for 19 years at the Kunde Hospital before going to medical school to obtain his medical degree at the University of Fiji. He will continue to have the backup of one volunteer doctor, probably a Nepali doctor. Sherpa medical students continue studying at the Kathmandu University on Mingma Norbu Sherpa Medical Scholarships sponsored by SEHF and will be assisting from time to time, at the Kunde Hospital. We have also continued to sponsor other local young medical students at Kathmandu University on SEHF sponsored Mingma Norbu Sherpa Medical Scholarships.

The Kunde Hospital is equipped to handle basic medical care including some minor operations such as caesarian section or appendicitis – all complicated cases are sent to Kathmandu. The Plan of the SEHF for the next ten years or more is to continue funding and monitoring the Hospital as well as other major projects with the Himalayan Trust Nepal as we have done since 1976.

Medical Scholarships

Through the Mingma Norbu Sherpa Scholarships, The Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation has educated the following students and enabled them to pursue their education in the field of Medicine.

Dr. Mingma Chering Sherpa, our second Medical scholarship student graduated from Kathmandu Medical school in 2006.  Dr. Chering then finished his internship in Kathmandu Nepal and did a one year residency at the Kunde Hospital under Dr. Kami Temba Sherpa, (our first medical student), who is now Chief of Medicine at Kunde Hospital. Dr. Tshering Wangdi Sherpa, (son of Dr.Kami Temba), was our third Medical scholarship student. He graduated from Kathmandu University Medical School in 2007 and completed his internship at Kathmandu University Hospital. Dr.Tshering Wangdi has finished a two year residency at Kunde Hospital and is now studying in Kathmandu. Dr. Eliza Bajracharya Rai became our fourth Medical scholarship student. Eliza had already started her studies in China and graduated from Medical school in 2007. She completed her internship at a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal and is now in residence at the Kunde Hospital. Our fifth Medical scholarship student Dr. Mingma Tsering Sherpa is currently interning in Kathmandu Hospital.  Our sixth student, Mingma Kanchi Sherpa is now in her second year at the University Medical school in the Philippines and will graduate in 2014.

All Mingma Norbu Scholarships are funded either in full or in part by The Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation, through your generous donations.  Thank you for continued support.

Mingma Norbu Sherpa Medical Scholarships Provided By The Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation