Tibetan Medical Centre awaits opening in Kazakhstan

Wednesday, 20 September: The administration has decided to depute Dr. Sonam Dorjee, CMO of Poanta Sahib branch clinic, as the resident doctor of the proposed Tibetan Medical Centre in Uralsk, Kazakhstan, for the period of one year. The administration is in discussion with Mr. Aubakirov Murat, the head of the newly coined Tibetan Medical Centre in Uralsk registered under the name of existing Health Company of Mr. Murat. The documents and papers of the doctor are currently being processed and scrutinised by the Kazakhstan government. The doctor will soon leave for Kazakhstan once the legal obligations are met.

Earlier, Dr. Ven Lobsang Soapa, on behalf of Men-Tsee-Khang toured Uralsk, Kazakhstan, on a medical camp from 8 – 22 June, organised by Mr. Aubakirov Murat, the head of Health Company. Initially, the doctor gave medical consultation and advises on dietary and behavioural regimens to 89 patients. The majority of the patients are reported to have come with complaints of nerve related, mental stress, sinusitus, arthritis, goitra, food poisoning and kidney diseases. He later had lengthy discussions on possibilities of establishing branch clinic in the region. The doctor also visited the proposed site for a branch clinic adjacent to a government offices building situated at the heart of the city which is owned by the Health Company and used as a bookshop at the moment.

The organiser Mr. Murat and all his staff members working at the Health Company are reported to have keen interest in Tibetan Buddhism and language apart from Tibetan medicine.Therefore, the doctor also gave introductory teachings on Tibetan language, culture, custom , history and Buddhist philosophy to the interested teachers, students and the staff of the Institute after 6 p.m. starting from 10 – 22 June. It is reported that the majority of the staff-members could fairly read and write in Tibetan.