More than forty years of growing alongside the people who come to Nepal — adding beds, specialists and equipment so patients never have to go elsewhere.
Founded to care for expatriates working on the Canadian International Water and Energy Consultants (CIWEC) project, and to give diplomats and aid workers in Nepal a Western-standard clinic. From the start it had its own laboratory, which became the foundation of the clinic's diagnostic work. It became one of the world's first destination travel medicine clinics, and soon began treating tourists and expats living in Kathmandu.
As patient numbers grew, the clinic moved to larger premises in Durbar Marg, in the heart of Kathmandu, giving more room to see patients.
CIWEC was privatized as one of the first Nepalese–American joint ventures and became a 15-bed hospital, adding inpatient care. Its reputation for high-quality care, backed by its own research, made it increasingly popular with the local Nepali community as well.
We moved to a custom-built, well-equipped facility in Lainchaur, across from the British Embassy. The new building brought far more infrastructure: expanded inpatient rooms, laboratory, radiology and emergency care under one roof.
We expanded the Kathmandu facility to care for even more patients, local and foreign, adding space for specialists and services that patients would otherwise have had to find elsewhere.
In September 2014 we opened CIWEC Hospital Pokhara in Lakeside, the gateway to the Annapurna region, bringing the same standard of travel medicine and 24-hour emergency care closer to trekkers and visitors.
Our own operation theatre opened, staffed by surgeons, orthopedic and gynecological specialists and anesthesiologists, so patients can have surgery without leaving the hospital that already knows them.
We added a CT scanner, giving our doctors faster answers in emergencies and complex cases. It's part of our ongoing effort to provide every service under one roof.
