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Share We are planning to establish a free health clinic in our community. Initially, it will be a health education and advice clinic. It will be scheduled every other weekend and will be located at the student's center in UNO. Our clinic will be staffed by voluntary Physicians in our community and will be free of charge and open to all. Due to legal, registration and documentation costs, no prescription for drugs will be provided. The focus of the clinic will be patient education, explanation of diagnosis and conditions, interpretation of laboratory data, counseling about prevention of complication from chronic medical conditions and advice for appropriate treatment and procedures.Dr.Sapkota will be immediately available to start the clinic and we hope to recruit other licensed physicians in our Nepalese community to join us in this effort. Dr. Sapkota is board certified in Internal medicine by ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) and he is licensed to practice medicine by the Nebraska state health and human services professional regulation division. He works full time as a Hospitalist and does not work outside the hospital. This is a complete voluntary endeavor.
This clinic will be most useful for the following persons: 1. Patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic lung disease, high cholesterol, kidney disease and other chronic medical conditions that need long term treatment and preventive measures. 2. People concerned about chronic medical problems and want interpretation and advice regarding their cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar etc. 3. People with long standing problems that are not sure if they need further testing to look for any possible serious cause for their symptoms. 4. Anyone with long standing health concern that is reluctant to seek medical help because of cost or insurance concerns.
This clinic is not for the following persons: 1. Child, pregnant women, and anyone with recent surgery. 2. Anyone with urgent or emergent problem that needs quick access to medical care. You need to call 911 and ask for an ambulance for prompt testing and treatment of these conditions. Appointments: 1. Appointments will be scheduled through e-mail on a first come first serve basis. Please e-mail us at
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and we will give you our first available date. All visits will be confidential and no one else will have any information about your problem except the doctor that you are visiting. 2. Please bring the following items during your visit: I. Any prescription and over the counter medication that you are taking. (Bring the actual pill bottle) II. Any medical records and lab tests that you had in the past. (You can ask the hospital or clinic where you had these tests to give you a complete copy of your medical record; they have to give it you by law). We would also like to invite other physicians in our community to contact us to join us and expand our services.
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