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...
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...
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...
In the district hospital in Muang Mok, simple blood, urine and chemical tests are carried out by trained laboratory assistants. Beatrice Holliger, former head laboratory technician in haematology at KSW, has been traveling to Laos regularly since 2010 as part of the...
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...
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...
