Hospital Completed in Winter
Hospital - Work in progress
Wonderful view from Hospital
Hospital Entrance
Pangoon Lake
Hospital Inauguration
The History of the Ladakh Heart Foundation
The work of the Ladakh Heart Foundation began serendipitously in 1997 when Lama Chogyal, a monk and the president of the LHF, was stuck in New Dehli while trying to obtain a visa to go to England. He decided to make constructive use of his time by visiting Ladakhi patients who were in Dehli hospitals. This experience taught Lama Chogyal two basic things: (a) many Ladakhi people have preventable heart disease and (b) that it was a jarring and overwhelmingly expensive experience for Ladakhi people to come to Dehli and stumble their way through what was basically a foreign country trying to find medical care for their illnesses. Read more
The Overall Goals of the Ladakh Heart Foundation
Provide affordable state of the art medical care for all Ladakh citizens who have cardiovascular disease. We are particularly interested in providing surgical repair for children who have congenital heart diseases (CHD). Provide free state of the art medical care for all Ladakhi citizens who have cardiovascular disease who can not afford treatment. Become a referral hospital for Indian citizens living in adjacent states who have cardiovascular disease. Read more
The basic problem: Health Care in Ladakh
Ladakh is an isolated mountainous land on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Until the middle of the 19th century, it was an independent Tibetan Buddhist kingdom, but since that time it has been part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Read more
Our Immediate Objective
Complete the construction of the Ladakh Heart Foundation Hospital and bring it into full operation by the end of 2007. This will include the furbishing of two complete operation theatres capable of doing open heart surgery, the purchase and installation of a complete range of diagnostic equipment and the creation of an intensive care unit (ICU). Read more
Compassion and action
"It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved."
Latest Newsletter
Day Care Center The ground floor of the hospital is completed and for the time being it is open for the public as a DAY CARE CENTRE.. Read more
Permission to run this hospital. Ground floor of the hospital complex is complete and functioning. Construction of Ist floor is almost complete for the operation theatre, surgical ward, I.C.U etc.. Read more
14th August 2009 Hospital Inauguration. On 14th August 2009, H. H. The Dalai Lama was requested to visit our hospital for the inauguration of our hospital.. Read more
