Nepal Medical Volunteer

Nepal Medical Volunteer

world for the Himalayas, striking wildlife, exciting cultures, antique architectures and warm welcoming people.

Partaking in this program will indeed be a life-changing and an eye-opening experience for you. You will enhance your medical/healthcare skills while making a difference and immersing in authentic Nepalese traditions and cultures.

You will work in collaboration with professional medical practitioners in the health clinics or hospitals that allow you to gain hands-on medical experience. Additionally, your passion will change lives of disadvantaged people, while keeping poor communities healthy.

Join this unique medical mission trip to learn medical practices, while also gaining valuable experience while assisting doctors in Nepal, contact RCDP today to learn more about this unique and affordable opportunity today.

Volunteers Responsibilities & Impact

In this medical volunteer opportunity in Nepal program, you will shadow local doctors and nurses in health posts, clinics or hospitals. You will be providing assistance in general check-ups, examinations of the patients and basic first aid treatment. At times, you will also help in administrative activities and support health education via community outreach programs.

You will learn mostly from observation shadowing local doctors and nurses. Due to inherent risk involved and medical regulations, volunteers cannot treat patients or become involved in surgery.

This Nepal medical volunteer program is a very meaningful. Your dedication and support will help understaffed hospitals providing adequate treatment to patients. Additionally, you will gain invaluable medical experience in international level while immersing in local Nepalese culture.

Skills and Qualifications

Taking part in medical volunteering in Nepal opportunities, you need to be a certified healthcare professional like an EMT or paramedic certification, or nursing or physician's credentials. Apart from that, you are expected to be patient and helpful . Most importantly you will be required to have a great love and passion for helping people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and possess a large degree of kindness, flexibility and patience.

Volunteer Schedule

While volunteering in Nepal medical program, you can expect to have exciting experiences everyday. You will get to fulfill your passion of making a difference while gaining medical experience in a developing country.

You will work with different hospitals and clinics in Nepal, and each of them has its own needs, programs and activities. There is no fixed program because tasks may vary everyday. Get ready to have a great time while helping at all times.

Here is a sample daily schedule:

• 7.00 AM – 7.30 AM – Enjoy delicious breakfast and get ready to start your day
• 7.45 AM – After breakfast, you will head to the hospital to gain hands-on medical volunteer experience, assisting patients, doctors and nurses
• 12.00 PM – Lunch break: Enjoy delicious traditional Nepalese meal with your host and other fellow volunteers
• 3.00 PM– You will complete your medical program at this time. Now you can free to explore nearby places
• 6.45 PM–A great time to enjoy delicious traditional Nepalese meal with your host and other fellow volunteers

Dates and Fees

Nepal medical volunteer program start every 2nd and 4th Monday of each month all yearlong. If you experience any travel difficulty or distress getting to Nepal on the day of your chosen program can also start on any other day of the year.

Every year, hundreds of volunteers arrive in Nepal to volunteer from UK and USA based organizations and end up paying up to $2500 to volunteer for 2 weeks. However, RCDP offers the most affordable program fee. Our program fee starts as low as $180. The program fee is divided in as registration fee ($279) and weekly fee. In Nepal, in addition to volunteer programs, RCDP runs many projects to help poor children and orphanages. We are presently running 2 orphanages in Nepal and school construction/renovation program (for detail, visit:http://www.rcdpnepal.org/about_rcdp/achievements.php).

Majority of your health project in Nepal fee is used for your program. However, as RCDP aims is to support poor communities and children, we use remaining saving (if any left)) to run or manage our orphanages and community projects.

Volunteer opportunity in Nepal in medical program weekly fee is divided between room/3 local foods a day (50%) and project donation/support of local project staffs (50%). This allocation may be different depending up on location, project type etc. However, our coordinator will explain these issues before you pay the fee.