The Swiss Laos Hospital Project regularly awards scholarships for the training and further education of medical professionals in Laos. We would like to introduce you to one such scholarship recipient who has now completed her training and is working again in her home...
The Swiss Laos Hospital Project is a Swiss non-profit organisation that has been working for 25 years to improve healthcare in Laos. Our doctors and nurses work on a voluntary basis, and we are funded entirely by donations. To support our work, we are looking for a...
On 12 December 2024, an anniversary was celebrated at the Mother and Newborn Hospital. Twenty-five years ago, Urs Lauper, Senior Physician for Obstetrics at the University Hospital of Zurich, visited Vientiane for the first time to take part as a speaker in a workshop...
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...
