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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…

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…

After careful planning and with the financial support of the Claus Cramer Foundation, the construction of an obstetrics and a neonatology ward could be started at the provincial hospital in Savannaketh. Particular attention was paid to sensible procedures and hygiene…

The district hospital of Nong Het is responsible for primary health care in the mountainous north of Laos. Since 2014, it has been visited three to four times a year by our GP group. The small hospital is to be expanded step by step over several years. In a first…

At Luang Nam Tha Provincial Hospital, the two existing operating rooms, sterilization, post-operative monitoring rooms, wet rooms and ancillary rooms were renovated. In addition, a third operating room was built, in which primarily caesarean sections will be…

2020 was a special year – in two respects: On one hand, it was dominated by the Corona pandemic, which made it largely impossible for our volunteer teams to travel to Laos. On the other hand, it was the year in which the Swiss Laos Hospital Project celebrated its 20th…

From Vientiane we receive the sad news that Prof. Dr. med. Bouavanh Sensathit has died after a long and serious illness among his family. Professor Bouavanh was the medical director of the Mother and Child Hospital for many years and an important representative in the…