By AHF Staff | AHF Staff
Walk through the front door of HRDC, and you can feel the hospital buzzing, full of children, their parents, and hospital staff in the hallways, exam rooms, and wards. Some of the children are on crutches, others in wheelchairs or with plaster casts.
But the feeling is upbeat and hopeful, and for good reason. This is the place where the Drs. Banskota and their medical team will, with skill and care, straighten twisted limbs, fix club feet, treat bad breaks and burns — all the mishaps that can befall a child.
For Nepal‘s poorest children, these mishaps can spell disaster. If their parents are struggling to feed them, affording medical care is hopeless, and the child suffers. But then they come to HRDC, where their physical and emotional wounds are healed, and their lives are completely transformed.
AHF and Dr. Ashok Banskota have a 34-year partnership, and in those three decades HRDC has grown under his leadership from a tiny clinic to a modern 100-bed children’s orthopedic hospital. Now his son, Dr. Bibek Banskota, leads the team of compassionate and skilled doctors and nurses who care for these kids every day with the same dedication.
Dr. Bibek says he knows the children they treat have regained hope and dignity when they start smiling. Today, HRDC’s community-based rehabilitation brings their trademark care and expertise to children in some of Nepal’s most far-flung corners. Through 34 years and over 110,000 transformed young lives, HRDC continues to be one of the most inspirational places you could ever visit.
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