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Dr Dil Bahadur Tamang has bagged Asia's Healthcare and Social Care Support Award

Dr Dil Bahadur Tamang has bagged Asia's Healthcare and Social Care Support Award


I am Dr. Dil Bahadur Tamang born in September, 1988 in Dhulikhel, Kavre. I am the eldest son among the four of my siblings to my parents Mr. Raghu Bahadur Tamang and late Mrs. Kanchhi Maya Tamang. I completed my Primary level education from Kuttal village, secondary level from Dhulikhel and joined the paramedics diploma course at Kathmandu University. At the age of 20, I went to China for an undergraduate (MBBS) course. I completed MBBS from Xuzhou Medical University, China in 2016. After passing the Nepal Medical Council (NMC) exam, I started serving at Dhulikhel Hospital as a Medical Officer in 2017. After a year of my service at Dhulikhel Hospital, I dedicated myself to serving the people around Nuwakot district in the remotest villages for around 3 years. People from remotest villages like Kumari, Panchase, Jhyangli, Jaljale and Dandagaon benefitted with my service. During my service at the local hospital there in Nuwakot, we as a team, brought more health facilities such as x-ray, USG and delivery services in support of Utah Medical University, USA. I would also go on house calls and I never charged for my services. 

Kanchhi Maya Tamang Foundation:

Kanchhi Maya Tamang is the name of my late mother, the one who engrave the right values as a human in me throughout my childhood. I remember her guiding and nudging me on the right path to chase my goal; to become a doctor and serve my community. My mother wanted me to be a source of motivation and inspiration. I have been offering my services to society to the best of my ability and conscience, and the source of my inspiration is my mother! 

It was mid April in 2016. I was only a month away from the completion of my dream, completion of MBBS. I was very excited that I was going to be a doctor in one month’s time and I was ready to give a big surprise to my dear mother. As usual, I was returning from internship duty and I had a call from my younger brother. He just insisted that I return home as soon as possible but didn’t say anything more than that. I got a signal that something was wrong at home, but I wasn’t prepared that the worst was waiting for me. I immediately flew back home at once. Alas! There was a funeral procession going on! I was completely perplexed! Soon a lot of people gathered me and began consoling me, then only I learnt that my dear mother was gone! She had had a motorcycle accident 2 days ago. I cried bitterly, and had flashbacks of those sweet memories I had spent with mom. How unlucky I was that I was going to be a doctor and the good news never reached my mom! 

My mom was not special because she gave birth to me-the speciality of her was her struggles throughout her life! She had saved every penny she got from her small farm to pay for my fees and comfort from the time I was a school child to my graduation. 

I desperately wanted to pay back my mom’s debt! And, a thought struck my mind, and then and there I came up with the idea of “Kanchhi Maya Tamang Foundation” in the sweet memory of my dear mother, Kanchhi Maya Tamang. Perhaps that way I could dedicate my entire life to serving the needy that would please my mom in heaven. 

Services through Kanchhi Maya Foundation:

We started offering our services through Kanchhi Maya Tamang Foundation from the year 2017. I was serving in Nuwakot district from where I reached out to the children who had lost their parents or whose parents could not afford to pay for their school fees and stationery. We started offering scholarships from 3 orphans in Nuwakot. Now, we have 17 female children being supported. We are very thankful for the golden hearts of French citizens who are supporting us with the necessary resources. 

In the financial support of Bodhisatwa Vihar, we also reach out to specially pregnant women in the remote villages with USG facility upon our mobile camps. 

From time and again, we have been conducting free health camps targeting remotest villages in Nepal. So far, we have reached Galkot in Baglung district, Taldhunga, Nayagaon and Salle Bhumlo in Kavre. We have also organized mobile health camps in various schools in Kavre. By now, over 3000 people have been benefited with these health camps. We offered free checkups, assistive devices and medicine. We also helped the referred patients with their expenses for cataract operations. Along with these, we also oriented school children on General Health whenever we visited them with mobile camps. 

We are also supporting the children of daily wage earners at Phulchoki Primary School, Godawari. We offer them tracksuits, shoes and stationery every year. A total of 50 children are benefited through the Foundation.

We also support people who cannot pay for their medical expenses. So far, we have supported a total of 15 individuals with different medical supports. Most of our supports go for surgeries like to those injured in road traffic accidents, fall injuries, poor individuals needing heart surgeries and so forth. 

We have also supported with assistive devices to people with disability. So far, the foundation has supported a total of 3 individuals who were in need of wheelchairs and crutches. We have supported with Stretcher to the general public in a remote village called Sano Sailung in Ramechhap district.

COVID-19 Response:

The situation in Nepal was getting out of control! People were in terror as all the hospitals were turning away patients due to lack of beds, medical supplies, and equipment. Patients were dying as they awaited admission. Nearly 50% of Covid-19 tests were reported positive; cases continued to rise and soon soared to above 455,000, with more than 5,000 Covid-19-related deaths reported. Experts predict 40,000 deaths by the beginning of July. Demand for medical oxygen and ventilators had soared to the peak ever recorded. The worst was even the medical persons had started dying of COVID-19. Vulnerable people like children, elderly, chronic patients, maternity and people with disability were at higher risk of getting infected and suffer from more severity. 

Nepal government imposed a lockdown to contain the widespread effects of the second wave of COVID-19, however its consequences adversely affected people’s lives due to a loss of income. With the worsening of the situation, needs were growing too. 

Most people in the remote villages were more in crisis. Primarily they had to be protected from being infected while the other big need was to arrange food for them. We, without any delay, initiated corresponding with various stake holders with proposals for reaching out to the needy with support, upon which we got rescinded from Boddhisatva Vihara and Nepal Tamang Doctors’ Association. 

During the crisis of pandemic, we reached out to the needy individuals in remote villages. Following are the highlights of our work:

-conducted Mass Antigen Tests through 7 camps in different locations from which around 500 people benefitted. From the camps around 100 people were found to be tested positive who were suggested for home isolation with clear orientation on safety measures. We provided the positive tested individuals with masks and medicines for free. They were also being followed up via different media like mobile, and fortunately, no severe cases reported.

-Distributed PPEs, Medical Kits (masks, Sanitizer Containers, Sanitizer Spray Tanks, medical gloves,Thermal guns, Pulse Oxymeter, medicine) and oxygen concentrators in remote villages (Health posts and isolation wards) in support of Bodhisatwa and Nepal Tamang Ghedung Association.

Food campaign: 

Meanwhile, Melamchi suffered from terrible flood all of a sudden at the beginning of monsoon in Nepal. We reached out to a total of 50 households of flood victims with daily essentials. Each household was supported with a sack of rice (25 kg), oil 1 ltr, soap bathing 1, soap washing 1, bitten rice 1 kg, salt 1 kg, dried soybean 0.5 kg, sugar 1 kg, tea dust 250 grams and lentils 1 kg.

Similar support reached Dolakha district. We heard of 5 families of disabled who were supported with the daily essentials as mentioned above.

We also provided people at Kuttal Bansghari, Dhulikhel with 25 kg of rice to 50 families.

Future plans:

We are planning to provide 2 Ambulances for Baglung and Kavre Mahabharat Rural Municipality. The ambulances will serve corona patients, elderly, children below 5 years, pregnant women and injury cases for free.

We are also planning to organize camps in remotest villages like Dolpa, Baglung and terai region. We will collaborate with an NGO, IDEA Nepal to identify leprosy patients while conducting camps in terai region.

We also aim to run a Community Hospital, a School and an Orphanage in 10 years’ time from now. 

In addition, we will be offering our regular services continuously. 

Rewards:

Corona Defence Award 2020 by Gantabya Nepal 2020

Roshi Rural Municipality honoured for medical supports to the elderly 2019

Nepal Tamang Society honoured for education support to children 2018

Asia Award, 2021 (health care and social support)
Dr Dil Bahadur Tamang has bagged Asia's Healthcare and Social Care Support Award

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