Healthcare Internships In Nepal

If you want to understand midwifery in Kathmandu, spend time in our partner hospital. You can spend time in the new birthing centre, a busy outpatient department for antenatal checks, and the gynae clinics. You’ll see deliveries, C-sections surgeries, and birthing complications like preeclampsia. You can also get (observational) experience in a teaching hospital. The hospital has a broad range of services — antenatal clinics, a labour room, a birthing centre, two theatres, a sick baby unit, a maternal and neonatal ICUs, postnatal facilities and an OBG ward.

Dentistry in Nepal hasn’t advanced in the same way as it has in more developed countries. People in Nepal often have to go to considerable lengths to be seen by someone with even the most basic skills, let alone a specialist. Luckily, dentistry is something our partner hospital specialises in. The hospital’s dental services are provided throughout the local community. Here, you’ll observe (and under special circumstances assist with) routine check-ups, abscess surgeries, restorations, pulpectomies, and more.

In Kathmandu, you’ll see real differences between the even the most basic aspects of care — a lack of patient privacy, lack of cross-infection control, and a contrast in the way routine procedures are performed. Manual intubation conducted without anesthesia is one example. You’ll also see that patients’ and families’ ability to pay for treatment has an impact on the way conditions are both diagnosed and treated.

The Nepalese healthcare system has shifted its focus towards physical therapy in the last decade. The discipline has grown significantly — there were only 30 qualified physical therapists recorded in 2007 versus 500 in 2012. You’ll see a broad range of ailments as a result of the varied lifestyles people from Kathmandu live, whether they’re from the city itself, or the foothills and mountains surrounding it. The departments in the hospitals we’re partnered with operate as rehabilitative centers for patients who've had accidents, falls, suffered spinal injuries, and more. Most patients are referred here from the neurology, orthopedics, and ENT departments.

The radiology department has a good range of facilities by local standards. These services are offered at reasonable rates in comparison to Nepal’s other private hospitals. Of course, the number of patients here varies, but there are typically around 50 patients for USG, 15 for CT scans, up to 150 patients for X-rays, and 8 patients for MRIs per day. This will prove a varied placement if you’re proactive. You’ll also spend time with a number of local specialists, tapping into their local expertise to broaden your own.

Pharmacy in the modern sense is a relatively new concept in Nepal. The practice of Ayurveda or ‘tree medicine’ is still prevalent throughout the country. That means many practitioners still use herb mixtures along with ancient Hindu healing prayers to treat the sick. Our partner hospital in Kathmandu offers the chance to see how modern pharmacy is developing in the field. Undertake an internship here and you can join in ward rounds, dispense medicine in the pharmacies, gain experience in the hospital’s pharmacovigilance department, and more.