Emergency services available 24 hours provided by on-call staff physician

Outpatient and Inpatient services provided by clinic doctors and nurses. Our doctors are experienced physicians with special expertise in taking care of high altitude and travel related illnesses. Other services offered at the clinic include the following:

Dental services - Full-service dentistry including operatives, crown and bridge prosthetics, periodontics, cleanings, endodontics, orthodontics, oral surgery, and implant dentistry.

Immunization services - All routine pediatric and travel related vaccines are available. In addition to regular vaccines, we carry vaccines that are usually not available in Nepal, including pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for children, inactivated injectable polio vaccine, diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccine, and yellow fever vaccine. Rabies prevention - the most reliable source of rabies prevention advice, vaccines, and immunoglobulin in South Asia.

Laboratory services - Excellent on-site laboratory that performs stool examination, blood counts, malaria smears, urinalysis, chemistries, pregnancy test, HIV testing and a range of other laboratory services including special tests for malaria and dengue fever. Our laboratory technician Mr. Ramachandran Rajah is internationally recognized for his work in diarrheal diseases.

Medical evacuation assistance and repatriation is provided by working closely with insurance companies, when required.

Obstetric/gynecology including pre-natal check ups and PAP smears

Pediatric services provided by a highly qualified senior pediatrician.

Physical examination and routine preventive health maintenance

Physiotherapy including ultrasonic treatment

Psychiatric services including psychoanalysis and counseling

Surgery/orthopedics - minor procedures performed on-site. Consultation/referral arranged for emergency major surgery and orthopedics

Translation/Interpretation services: The working language of the clinic is English but medical interpretation is available in Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Nepali and Tibetan.

Travel advice including advice regarding malaria prophylaxis. We are well stocked with prophylactic medications for malaria prevention.

Fees and Billing
The clinic has no outside source of financial support besides the charges that we make to patients. Because we know that many travelers are on a budget, we have always attempted to keep the charges as low as possible. Bills from tourist patients are expected to be paid at the time of each visit. The Travel Medicine Center provides internationally acceptable medical receipts that can be submitted to your insurance company once you get home. We accept VISA and MasterCard payments. If a patient is facing a large bill and does not have the means at hand to pay for it immediately, we can discuss other financial arrangements. Foreign residents of Nepal are automatically extended credit, but are asked to pay their bills at the end of each month. If possible, however, we request that foreign residents make payments at the time of each visit as this streamlines our bill collection process.

Information Sources Provided by the Travel Medicine Center

CIWEC maintains a web site (www.ciwec-clinic.com), which is updated regularly to allow people to have access to the latest information regarding health risks in Nepal. There are a variety of free printed handouts on health problems and treatment relevant to travelers. Individual questions regarding travel immunizations can be answered without charge. The Health and Safety chapter of the main trekking guide to Nepal, Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya, published by Lonely Planet, is written by the former medical director of CIWEC Clinic, David R. Shlim, M.D.