Currently all the financial donations for the Clinic are spent for the airfare to Kathmandu for the doctor working at Benchen and for the supply of dental materials and medicines. Food and accommodation for the doctors are sponsored by the Monastery. In the future, if at all possible, we will wish to extend medical help provided at the Clinic. Based on our years of experience and suggestions given by the Monastery and doctors working at the Clinic, we can set up a list of priorities for the future development. It can of course be modified, depending on the social and political situation in Nepal:

  • Enabling more visits of our doctors at Benchen Monastery Free Clinic - up to minimum 2 three months periods during a year. Currently, at the time when Dr Turkiewicz does not work in the Clinic, no dental help is offered. Dr Agata could work there twice a year, if we had enough supplies for her.

In October 2005, thanks to donations collected during the year, the second monthly visit to Benchen Clinic was possible.

In the future it might be also possible that Tashi, a young Tibetan from Kathmandu and student of Warsaw Medical Academy, could work at the Clinic after graduation. He started his second year of study, that is possible thanks to the Polish Government scholarship, applied by Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.

  • Dental equipment used at the Clinic since its beginning should be maintained and renewed. One of the tasks ahead of us is to do a full professional inspection of the equipment.
  • Buying and equipping a special car that could enable us to reach all the remote regions of Nepal and India, where people can not get any dental help. In most of the regions of Nepal people never leave their villages and never ever have visited a dentist.
  • Establishing a small dental clinic at the branch of the Benchen Monastery Free Clinic in Parping - small village above the Kathmandu valley.
  • Establishing a dental clinic in the recently rebuild Benchen Monastery in the eastern part of Tibet (Kham).