Five months as a nurse in Laos

Five months as a nurse in Laos

In her everyday life, Pascale Widmer works as an intensive care nurse in neonatology at the Cantonal Hospital Winterthur KSW. From November 2023 to April 2024, she volunteered with the Swiss Laos Hospital Project in the provincial hospitals in Phonsavan, Sam Neua and...
Signing of the MoU 2024–2028

Signing of the MoU 2024–2028

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is the contractual basis for our activities in Laos. It is agreed between the Laotian Ministry of Health and the Swiss Laos Hospital Project. On 17 May 2024, our President Dr. Alphons Schnyder signed the MoU for the next five...
Annual Report 2023

Annual Report 2023

In 2023, the Swiss Laos Hospital Project was able to fully resume its activities, which were severely restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic. 73 volunteers were in Laos for a total of 1,761 days for our project, and many hundreds of hours of volunteer work were also...
Update on the Corona pandemic in Laos

Update on the Corona pandemic in Laos

Since a few weeks, the Swiss Laos Hospital Project has a new representative in Laos, Gabriele Grossenbacher. She replaces Regine Wehrle, who had reported from Laos for the last time at our Annual Meeting 2021. In a video message from early October, Gabriele...
1 Year of Corona Pandemic in Laos

1 Year of Corona Pandemic in Laos

Due to the Corona pandemic, we have not been able to send volunteers from Switzerland to Laos since March 2020. Thanks to Regine Wehrle, a German pediatrician on site, and frequent contacts with our Laotian partners via internet, we were nevertheless able to provide...