The Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital
Since the first conversations in Pheriche on our way to Mt. Everest Base Camp, the Musa team has taken to heart the ideas of the late Wongchhu Sherpa, including this: Take your blessings and good works and bring them to people and places that have helped you in your success. The Musa team has watched the hospital go from an idea to a three-building hospital compound that is serving a population of over 30,000. This has been a monumental effort.
The hospital has an emergency room, an OB/GYN suite, an inpatient care floor, living quarters for the staff, and a pharmacy building that hosts visiting eye doctors, dentists, and rotating specialists.
Drs. Paul Auerbach, Luanne Freer and Eric Johnson, with the Wilderness Medical Society, created the Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital fund. The steering committee also includes Drs. Arthur Islas and Robert Quinn.
The official opening of the Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital was on October 4th, 2020.
