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{{Infobox hospital<br />
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| location = Gangchen Kyishong<br />176215 [[Dharamshala]]<br />
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The '''Tibetan Delek Hospital''' is a hospital founded in 1971 by members of the [[Tibetan diaspora]] and their supporters and located in [[Dharamshala]] in [[Northern India]]. It serves the Tibetan residents and local community in the region, as well as tourists from around the world.<ref>Oren Family, [http://www.israaid.org.il/Volunteering_Details.asp?id=40 Volunteering in India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129002940/http://www.israaid.org.il/Volunteering_Details.asp?id=40 |date=29 January 2010 }},<br />
[[IsraAid]]</ref> It practices social assistance, mainly using [[modern medicine]].<ref>[[Bertrand Odelys]], ''Dharamsala, Chroniques tibétaines'', Albin Michel, 2003, {{ISBN|2226142592}}, p 140</ref> In 2013, the [[Stop TB Partnership]]'s selection committee chose the Delek hospital as the winner of that year's Kochon Prize, a prestigious award that recognizes persons and institutions who have made major contributions to the fight against [[tuberculosis]].<ref name="Betsy McKay">Betsy McKay, [https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304281004579219970258410400 TB Prize Selection Gets Caught in Politics], Wall Street Journal, 26 novembre 2013</ref> However, the winner must be approved by the director-general [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) [[Margaret Chan]] at the time), and the WHO nullified the choice, because the hospital has ties to the [[Central Tibetan Administration]], which considers itself the Tibetan government-in-exile, and "The WHO is not able to recognize any entity that is not in turn recognized as a legal authority by the UN," according to a spokesman for the WHO<ref name="Betsy McKay"/> and a statement published in the [[medical journal]] ''[[The Lancet]]''.<ref name="Feig2014">{{cite journal |last1=Feig |first1=Christy |title=WHO disapproves Kochon prize for Tibetan TB Programme – WHO's reply |journal=The Lancet |date=March 8, 2014 |volume=383 |issue=9920 |pages=868–9 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60442-6 |pmid=24607098 |s2cid=205972364 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60442-6/fulltext|doi-access=free }}</ref> However, China had also objected to the selection,<ref name="Betsy McKay"/><ref name=Finney>{{in lang|en}} Richard Finney, [http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/prize-12302013171732.html Tibetan Groups Petition WHO for Hospital Award ] [[Radio Free Asia]], 2013-12-30</ref> and the Tibetan exile community believed that their pressure was responsible for the override.<ref name=Finney/><br />
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== History ==<br />
Delek Hospital was built through donations and provides care at a low cost to patients, while taking care of low-income patients.<br />
It was founded in 1971 by the [[Fourteenth Dalai Lama]] to give modern medicine to Tibetan refugees and the Indian community living in Dharamsala, a city of Northern India.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}<br />
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File:CIMG0951.JPG|Friends of Tibetan Delek Hospital Backup Generator installed August 2007 with Dr Zorba Pastor on the right<br />
File:CIMG0938.JPG|Sign for Directly Observed Treatment (DOTS) for [[Tuberculosis|TB]] in Dharamsala, India, on 25 May 2008<br />
File:New Delek X-Ray Film Processor.jpg|New donated Tibetan Delek Hospital X-ray film processor on 25 May 2008<br />
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In June 2008, the Delek hospital began a program to improve the control of tuberculosis in the Tibetan diaspora, supported by the [[Johns Hopkins University]] with the participation of Dr. [[Zorba Paster]] and Dr. Richard Chaisson,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=21495&article=Delek+Hospital+details+Plan+to+Combat+TB+in+the+Tibetan+Community |title=Delek Hospital details Plan to Combat TB in the Tibetan Community |access-date=2 January 2014 |archive-date=14 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514185320/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=21495&article=Delek+Hospital+details+Plan+to+Combat+TB+in+the+Tibetan+Community |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Associazione Italiana per la Solidarietà fra i Popoli (AISPO).<ref>[http://www.tibet.net/en/index.php?id=1886&articletype=flash&rmenuid=morenews&tab=1 Health Department holds conference to control TB in Tibetan community], 11 October 2010</ref><br />
The [[Rotary Club]] of Sunshine, based in Australia, participates in the financing of the program of tuberculosis control for Tibetan refugees.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OjMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 The Rotarian sept. 2005], p 26 "[…] the Rotary Club of Sunshine, Australia, funds a tuberculosis control program for Tibetan refugees at Delek Hospital in Dharamsala, India."</ref><br />
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== Location ==<br />
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It lies between Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj, near the [[Men-Tsee-Khang]]—a location that may facilitate collaboration between these medicines.<ref> {{cite book |author1=International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar |title=Soundings in Tibetan Medicine |date=2007 |page=25 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-15550-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLEqGQ6BTEkC&pg=PA25 }}.</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Traditional Tibetan medicine]]<br />
* [[List of organizations of Tibetans in exile]]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
* [http://www.rhonealpes.fr/uploads/Externe/cb/RAP_FICHIER_529_1229440500.pdf Rapport de fin de stage]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://www.delekhospital.org/index.htm Friends of Tibetan Delek Hospital] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608104156/http://www.delekhospital.org/index.htm |date=8 June 2011 }} (les amis de l'hôpital Delek)<br />
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