Construction Site

The construction site is progressing steadily. From merely the first floor this time last year, we have added the whole of the second floor, constructed a well 170m deep to provide a reliable and clean water supply, and now have a connection to electricity and telephone. The army also gave a loan of a bulldozer, allowing the leveling of the rest of the site, while the forest department already concretized its pledge to plant approximately 1000 trees around the hospital. Another good news is that the construction of the guesthouse is progressing as well, most of the first floor being almost completed at this time. This guesthouse is very important to us, as it is going to facilitate most of invited specialists and medical volunteer’s accommodation.We hope to complete most of the main building by the end of the summer season, in one and a half months time, but this is very much dependent upon the resources accessible to us, considering that most of the material costs increased considerably in the last months.The Ladakh Heart Foundation also wants to inform its members and donators about the list of requirements for the registration of the LHF Hospital under section 4 of the J&K State Nursing home and Clinical Establishment Registration and Licensing (Act. 1963). The required parameters are the following:

1. Official name of the establishment with specifications about the owners and management

2. Documents about land allotted and building design

3. Specifications concerning full time resident doctors and their certificates

4. Specifications about paramedical and nursing staff, and their certificates

5. Arrangements regarding blood transfusion processes

6. Investigation facilities

7. Full list of medical equipment, Surgery Theater included

8. Resuscitation and life saving related equipment

9. Specifications about ambulances

10. Biomedical waste disposal

11. Arrangements in case of electricity breakdowns

Any help regarding those requirements will be welcomed and highly appreciated, particularly regarding numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.