I am not shocked by the ranking. It really hardly matters if Nepal is tenth poorest or 12th richest. Question is do the Nepalese people know and fulfill their obligations toward their country??
Of course there are lot of personalities in Nepal who have done lot of things for the improvement of health care. At one side there are ppl who can only criticize Nepal, see only bad things of it. They are selfish, they only think about themselves and want to have a better life, for which they leave country- be it as foreign employee, DV winner or student- settle down, and never look behind, never think to do something for its country. They adapt in new modern and so called "civilized society", Nepal is for them only a piece of land, a poor country with dummy ppl.
I personally have no respect for such ppl, indifferently whether they are taxi driver, British Gurkha soldier or professor of oxbridge, unless they do something for their own country.
Coming to point, Dr. Ram Shrestha studied medicine and then surgery in Univ of Vienna. He got offering from the university. He could earn a heap of money, he could make his name in Europe. But he was determined, he had left something behind, he felt his responsibilities, rejected everything offered to stay in Europe. He leaved the most beautiful capital of the world to return to his village, where ppl were laking a health care system, it is dhulikhel where he opened Dhulikhel hospital. In respect of which lot of German, swiss and Austrian associations are helping Dr Ram to cure local ppl.
This is I guess the only hospital which is run under private base without any profit earning mission, which cures children and pregnant for free.
For more:
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/raonlin...ulikhel01.html http://www.schoolnet.or.jp/hospital/