The School Clinic at PDO High School
is open to everybody who needs care. For this care, no money is charged. It was
founded in 2003 by the German NGO ‘Foerdervererein Myanmar’, and has ever since been
financed by it. Locals as well as people from far away visit our clinic and
receive free treatment and medication. Often, more than one hundred patients are
treated per day. Ten doctors work in our clinic: five general practitioners, two
eye specialists, two dentists and a paediatrician. They are assisted by fifteen
nurses. There are special consultation hours in the evening for our novices and
monks, conducted by the nurses only. They treat daytime minor injuries – some
of our novices are still very young – and dandruff, which is unfortunately very
common amongst the students.
All our doctors are supported by western doctors who
conduct major campaigns. Recently, for example, two Australian eye specialists tested
the eyesight of about 500. Defunct, untreated eyes are common in Myanmar. A
prominent Swiss dentist examined the teeth of most of our school children in a
single session. Our own doctors also perform eye operations and treat bad teeth
on a regular basis. The school clinic ,of course, works in close co-operation
with the Burnet Institute and the 3D-project.
Moreover, the clinic provide treatment
ART and other Opportunist Infection for HIV people thorugh funding from
3D Fund which are under Phaung Daw Oo project (PHPP and Javika).
