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Since September 1998, during his visit to Warsaw, Poland, Abbot of the Benchen Monastery Tenga Rinpoche discussed expanding the Clinic with Dr. Wojciech Ryncarz. Dr. Ryncarz has already helped to organize medical services at the Tibetan Delek Hospital in Dharamsala, India. In April 1999, complete equipment for modern dental surgery, as well as medicaments and materials for dentistry, arrived in Katmandu from Poland. The equipment permits European standards of professional treatment. For one month, the Clinic treated up to 50 persons a day, which confirmed us in the conviction as to the need for its enlargement. In September 1999, parallel to routine medical services, construction works for the new Clinic started. The structure, raised on a slope, was reinforced, which made it possible to add three new rooms and baths for the monks. Also, a whole floor was added to house a general medicine- pediatrics consulting room (providing also basic surgical aid); eye surgeon's consulting room; blood tests laboratory; and an ultrasonography, electrocardiography, and X-ray chest examination lab. Knowing the needs of both the local community and the arriving Tibetan refugees, we want to establish a Clinic offering the European standard of services, providing the best possible medical care and serving as a modern base for its medical staff. |
  
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with "Medicines sans Frontiers", the Benchen Clinic will base on volunteers
only. The first doctors will probably arrive in the latter half of 2000.
Several monks interested in medicine are now being trained in nursing. Now, to fully equip the new Clinic and to secure its proper operation, financing is necessary on a regular basis. In this area, we can rely only on grants from organizations and private persons devoted to the cause of free medical aid to the poorest. At the same time, we can guarantee that all funds granted for this purpose will be administered with care and full responsibility. The whole of the venture is personally supervised by both of the Monastery's Abbots - His Eminence Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and Venerable Tenga Rinpoche. Also, periodical narrative and financial reports from the Benchen Clinic's work will be published regularly on the Clinic's own www site. For this reason, requesting the sponsors' assistance in implementation of the entire project, we summarize (also on the www site) both the expenses and the current needs. Your contribution will help us sooner to start this highly needed activity, and to make it more effective . Already Purchased :
Further Needs :
In an effort to reduce the costs of transport, we make some of the purchases in Nepal or import goods from India. We have negotiated a contract with Aeroflot Airlines for cargo transport from Poland at the rate of USD 2/kg (reduced from USD 10) . During the last 12 weeks, the dentist's surgery had the total of 1,286 patients. We provide medical services on a regular basis to 36 monasteries, an elementary school at the refugee center (about 300 persons), a secondary school and an orphanage. General medical services were provided to about 600 persons. Please send all correspondence regarding the Free Clinic to e-mail address: This procedure also secures the best organization of spending such funds in accordance with current needs, both for purchases of equipment and for efficient functioning of the Clinic. All donors will receive annual reports from the
Clinic's operation.
Wojciech Ryncarz , MD in dentistry
Katmandu, Nepal
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