The day clinic
The heart of Clinic Nepal
The clinic building is located on the edge of Meghauli in an open grove near a jungle area. Surrounded by a garden with flowers, perennials, fruit trees and palms, it comprises several rooms: reception/waiting area, examination rooms, X-ray, medicine storage, laboratory and physiotherapy.
Specialist doctors from Bharatpur
In 1998 the clinic work was started with two nurses and a health assistant. In the meantime a consultation offering with various specialist doctors has developed: several times a week doctors of various specialities come, including general medicine, dentistry, ophthalmology, gynaecology and neurology. These doctors otherwise work in the state hospital in Bharatpur, about 20 km east of Meghauli.
Who comes and what it costs
Recently, more than 5,000 people a year have come to the clinic, a little over half of them women. Most of them seek help for skin, eye or ear, nose and throat problems, or for back and joint pain. Diabetes and high blood pressure are becoming more common. Minor injuries can be treated on site. Patients with more serious injuries are taken to the hospital in Bharatpur in the clinic's own ambulance, since May 2026 in a new ambulance.
Patients pay a share of the costs. An X-ray costs only half the state hospital rate, blood sugar and uric acid tests are free, and there is a fee for other laboratory tests and medicines. There are also home visits for people who cannot come to the clinic.
Beyond the clinic
Health camps bring medical care to remote places where there are no doctors. In 2024/25 there were five camps with about 1,800 patients in total, among them a camp in Laljhadi (Kanchanpur) with 834 patients and an eye camp in Meghauli.
Clinic Nepal also helps poor families with the state health insurance, most recently 100 households with around 550 people. When people below the poverty line need expensive treatment after an accident or in an emergency, the individual case fund pays a grant, including transport to specialist hospitals. In 2024/25 Clinic Nepal supported, for example, the operation of a nine-year-old child with severe burns in Kathmandu.
Western volunteers
From time to time, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists or midwives from Western countries work in the clinic free of charge. In 2024/25 a physiotherapist from Germany treated 23 patients in 76 sessions over one week. An acupuncture therapist offered free neuro-acupuncture for two months, and 5,269 people were treated. Five nurses from Maine helped at health camps and taught first-aid courses. If you would like to help yourself, you will find all the information on the volunteering page.