Health
Sundar Dhoka Saathi Sewa Nepal
The Core Program of Crucial Help at SDSS
Patients come to SDSS from remote areas of Nepal when referred by partner hospitals and clinics. This is our core work. Caring professional staff help them "navigate" the all the processes of accessing healthcare and recovery.
Challenges they must face may include all or some of these: financing treatment, know-how, and technical barriers of the "big city" systems of healthcare and transportation.
While at SDSS, they receive a home, food, medical advocacy and oversight, transportation, and access to medical practitioners and hospitals. Their family members also stay in support of the patient.
Loving care for the whole person is our service. Safe and wholesome hospitality supports their medical treatment and recovery so they can recover in peace and successfully resume their life and return home.
Children's Heart Project
For our Little Ones
Nepali children with life threatening/shortening congenital and rheumatic heart defects receive loving care in our facility.
Specialist cardiac intervention saves the lives of these children offering a full and productive lifespan. We open the door for this life-transforming medical care.
While staying in our comfortable hostel, we provide food, transportation, healthcare navigation (arrangements and advocacy), and assistance making the service of cardiac specialists accessible to those children most in need.
Children's Rehabilitation Project
Correctable Birth-Genetic Defects
Individuals (especially children) with correctable birth/genetic defects come to SDSS and are guided to specialized medical services. We arrange, facilitate, and oversee their surgery, rehabilitation therapy, and post treatment education for ongoing care, wholeness, and life-skills. While at SDSS, patients and their caregiver(s) receive housing, food, medical transportation, and any other needs vital to their course of medical care and rehabilitation.
Injuries from Accidents
Accident victims (burns, falls, auto accidents, etc.) in remote areas may be left untreated or improperly treated causing ongoing physical impairments. Amputation becomes a common result. At SDSS, these people are received and assisted in restorative care, prosthetic services, rehabilitation training, and life-skills necessary to thrive with their reality. When government services are available, we advocate and assist our clients to receive the help for which they are qualified.
Women's Health Project
Proactive Health & Wellness for Village Women
Many women in remote villages suffer from undetected and easily treated medical conditions. Uterine prolapse, or pelvic organ prolapse are common in the population and cause of life-complicating and related health issues.
Women with these conditions receive care through the health screening camps of SDSS conducted in remote areas of Nepal. They then receive the needed medical treatments.
Our health screening clinics discover untreated medical conditions in approximately 25% of the population of women served.
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Charity Care Project
Medical Help - Special Cases
At times, special cases fall "outside" the norms of our practice and we watch for these and respond. For unique individuals, equally unique care addresses their needs.
This program is an extension of our core program, the Patient Navigation project note above. Patients receive a complete, holistic, and flexible case-by-case treatment plan with the goal of complete recovery and restoration. This program often demands a creative approach to solve complex problems.
Local Sponsor Project
Being a Good Neighbour
Our Patient Navigation clients are typically those medically challenged needy persons from remote villages. But, on occasion there are equally worthy and medically needy people in and among us in Kathmandu. These people arrive at SDSS by virtue of a local agency (government or other) who seeks our support, hospitality, and expertise.
We stand ready to serve anyone in need, including those in communities local to our base of operations.
