The North Daily

  Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC), over 3-decades old educational and spiritual NGO based in Leh (Ladakh) has appealed to the international medical community to extend their support to the health services in remote Himalayas . Doctors are given a call to join the Global Doctors Association of the Himalaya (GDAH). The medical care available in the high  Himalayas is inadequate for the local communities. There are not enough well-equipped hospitals with qualified doctors. To provide medical care to some of the poorest people and those living in the remotest villages of the Himalayan region, Bhikkhu Sanghasena, a Buddhist leader and founder of MIMC, established the Mahabodhi Karuna Charitable Hospital (MKCH) in 1995 at the Devachan campus of MIMC in Leh.   Patients at the Mahabodhi Karuna Charitable Hospital, Leh MKCH has been delivering medical treatment with the help of senior doctors retired from local government hospitals and visiting v...

Guruji Bhikkhu Sanghasena honored senior journalist & environment activist Narvijay Yadav for his remarkable contribution towards the protection of the Himalayan Environment Leh (Ladakh): Venerable Bhikkhu Sanghasena, one of the highest Buddhist monks in Ladakh, honored the senior journalist and environment activist from Chandigarh, Mr Narvijay Yadav for his remarkable contribution towards the protection of the Himalayan environment at the International Environment Conference held in Leh recently. Mr Yadav is General Secretary of the Chandigarh Chapter of Save the Himalayas Foundation and has been active in the media for the past 30 years. In his address, Bhikkhu Sanghasena said, "The protection of the Himalayan environment is important not only for its inhabitants, but for the whole world, because there is only one Himalaya in the whole world. Narvijay Yadav has made a significant contribution as the General Secretary of the Chandigarh Chapter of the Save the ...