last update (11.01.2006)
Kathmandu Model Hospital(KMH)
Changing concepts of health services

 

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Contact Address:
Kathmandu Model Hospital
P.O. Box 6064, Exhibition Road (Pradarshani Marg), Kathmandu, Nepal 
Tel: + 977-1-4222450, +977-1-4240805, +977-1-4240806
Fax: +977-1-4256917
e-mail: phectnp@mos.com.np


Premise

Despite all efforts in development made in Nepal over the last several decades, for the majority of the Nepalese life still remains well below a satisfactory level. Irrational distribution of resources and their mismanagment grossly marginalized most of the population, making people unable to meet their basic needs. With the advent of democracy in 1990, naturally, there were rising expectations of qualitative changes in life including health. A clear vision of development had become a prerequisite to initiate planning and action to move in this direction. Visibly, the government was not adequately prepared for this. There was a need for NGOs to step in to act as partner of national development. In this background, phect-NEPAL came into existence in 1991 along with many other NGOs.

phect-NEPAL envisions health cooperative that means:

  • sharing of resources for the benefit of members' communities

  • contribution to the cooperative is not weighed against return value, specially in monetary form, to the individual, but is viewed instead in terms of the benefit to the entire community

  • removing dependency and achieving self reliance of the community, not investing to increase mass of personal property

  • a culture, a tradition and a way of living where every individual leads a dignified life in harmony with the community and every individuals's opinion and contribution is valued and honored in resolving the contradictions of life

Kathmandu Model Hospital envisions health services as an integral part of processes to explore human potential and believes in the principles that health service:

  • should not aim at merely curing diseases, but also at removing human suffering

  • should be a mix of technology and human values

  • should not be denied to those who cannot buy services and those who do not seek the services

  • should be made available to the greater number of less privileged population of the society

01/2006 , Florian Drews, nepalmed, drews_florian@hotmail.com / nepalmed@gmx.de