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

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Kunde Hospital - Updates 2009

For more than 32 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 fifth 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.