Currently all the financial donations for the Clinic are spent for the airfare to Kathmandu for the doctor working at Benchen, the supply of dental materials and medicines, repairs of dental equipment and accomodation in a house close to the Monastery. Food and day-to-day support for the doctors are provided by the Monastery. In the future, if at all possible, we will wish to extend medical help provided at the Clinic. Following a request of the Monastery abbot, we plan to set up a small branch of the Clinic in Parping, villigage placed in a more remote part of Himalayas, where the Monastery can offer a land. 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. From that time on we are able to organise longer, 2-3 months trips, twice a year.

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 is finalising his study now, that was possible thanks to the Polish Government scholarship, applied by Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. His younger sister also received the same scholarship and trains to be another dentist working at the clinic.

  • 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).