The Gar Tibet Health Project

Project Goals

  • Build and staff a healthcare clinic and keep it stocked with Tibetan, Chinese, and basic western medicines, including vitamin supplements.
  • Educate and equip families and communities to care for women and infants before, during, and after childbirth by means of midwifery training and distribution of birthing kits.
  • Train five local women in a three-year Tibetan and Chinese medicine program to provide basic healthcare services in Gargön and remote surrounding areas.
  • Continue basic hygiene and disease-prevention education and other health outreach programs.

 

 

A lifesaving healthcare initiative for the semi-nomadic people of eastern Tibet

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