Scheer
Memorial Hospital has been a part of Banepa for so long (since
1960) that people here call it “Banepa Hospital.” From its
unassuming beginnings as a one-room clinic in a village
leader’s home to a multi-specialty hospital atop the steep
hill that marks the route of Sir Edmund Hillary’s trek to Mt.
Everest, this hospital has become more than a landmark of the
community it serves.
Scheer has a long-standing reputation for charity medical
services. In rugged mountain villages with no roads or
electricity or other modern conveniences, stories are told of
the compassion, of the generosity, and of the quality of care
at Scheer. And from these places come the majority of our
patients. Some walk for days. Others are carried by friends
and families—on homemade stretchers or hammocks; and often by
piggy back too! They come because everyone knows that no one
is ever turned away at Scheer for lack of money. A doctor’s
consultation costs only 35 cents—a small fraction of
comparable healthcare costs elsewhere in Nepal. But the people
we serve are so poor (The annual per capita income in Nepal is
$210), that even the 35 cents is more than most can afford.
This is why over 35% of our cases are charity.
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