SANGYE-MENLA PATIENTS CHARITABLE TRUST

People from the North of India, this includes refugee Tibetans and Himalayan people, have to come to Chandigarh, a large city in the Punjab region of India, for medical treatment. This is where there are many specialist doctors and hospitals. For the past few years patients going to Chandigarh have been helped by various volunteers. However, there was an overwhelming need for a more structured approach to the patients requirements and so the Trust was established... The main purpose of the trust is to provide a hostel so patients have somewhere to stay in Chandigarh, provide fully trained staff to go to the hospitals with the patients, provide after care and translate for the patients as many of them from Tibet or the remote Himalayan villages do not speak Hindi. The staff ensure the patients time in Chandigarh is as stress free and comfortable as possible... In the hostel there is one room specially fitted out for patients requiring intensive care and another room for a Lha-Khang..