Jonathan Berger
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Chag-Po Nang-Ha » is a Tibetan expression which means “Take care of yourself.”
Jonathan Berger’s photographs document the clinics that provide medical care to the Tibetan exile community in India. Tibetan Delek Hospital, founded in 1971, provides much-needed health care to the Tibetan and local Indian communities in Dharamsala, India in the foothills of the Himalayas.
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The Tso-Jhe Hospital provides care is in the Bylakkupe Tibetan settlement, a large community of Tibetans in the south of India. TB “negative” patients can be cured day by day at the clinics while the positive TB patient have to go for months at the hospital. The Dalai Lama is the hospital’s patron. Delek hospital’s 45-bed charitable hospital provides general medical care with a special focus on Tuberculosis, the single most serious infectious disease that threatens the Tibetan population and new arrivals in India. Although tuberculosis is a curable disease, the principal problem for Tibetan patients, especially young adolescents, is that they must follow the cure scrupulously day by day, or the disease mutates and becomes drug resistant.
Jonathan Berger
