Welcome to HealthCare Nepal (HCN), an all-volunteer organization now in its 28th year of helping improve health and education in Nepal.
Our website will be undergoing a major renovation over the next few weeks. Please check back for updates on our 2025 projects, with stories and photos from the field. Thank you. (December 1, 2025)
Thank you to all who are responding to the recent annual appeal from Drs. Frederick Basilico and Judith Waligunda. Since 1998, your compassion and generosity have helped thousands in Nepal through medical camps, free dental and vision care, neonatal and pediatric intensive care, chemotherapy for children with cancer, autism services, support for children with deafblindness, construction of school classrooms, and much more. Your continued support is improving — saving — lives. Thank you!
Jack Starmer
Director
A Brief Look At Some Of Our Activities
Health Camps
Health Camps have been the cornerstone of our work since 1999, with 63 camps held across Nepal in partnership with Sagarmatha Health Foundation and other organizations. Read more
Dental Camps
Dental Camps have brought free care to thousands of patients throughout the country. Read more
Eye Camps
In the past two years HealthCare Nepal has supported 11 Eye Camps staffed by doctors from Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu. Read more
Smokeless Wood Stoves
HealthCare Nepal installed Smokeless Wood Stoves in 20 homes in the village of Bochur, Solukhumbu. Read more
New Generation Nepal
In partnership with New Generation Nepal, we are supporting teacher training, classroom libraries, and more. Read more
Pediatric Cancer Care
In collaboration with our Nepali partner organization, Sagarmatha Health Foundation, and Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, HealthCare Nepal is providing free chemotherapy for children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Treatment is for 2-3 years at a total cost to HCN of $4,000 per child. The 5-year survival rate is 90%.
Autism
HealthCare Nepal has supported AutismCare Nepal Society for 15 years, helping it grow from a small group of committed parents with autistic children to a national resource providing education, parent training, vocational training, and advocacy to children and families across the nation.
Deaf-blindness
HCN is supporting the Society of Deafblind Parents, an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for children with deaf-blindness and their parents through education and life-skills training. Two staff at their center in Kathmandu have been trained at the Helen Keller Institute for Deaf and Deafblind in Mumbai, India.
Your support has made all this and more possible. Thank you!
National Public Radio’s Car Talk and HCN. An example of “Automotive Cardiology in the Field” as practiced by Dr. Subarna Acharya, another of HCN’s close friends. In 2001 we hosted him in the USA for advanced training in cardiology.