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Capsugel Signs On To Support Doctors for Nepal

by Cristina Goodwin | February 18, 2015

Capsugel signed a two-year agreement to support Doctors for Nepal, a British charitable organization working to improve health care in rural Nepal by empowering impoverished local students to qualify and serve as doctors in isolated communities in remote rural areas, where they are greatly needed.  The company’s annual donations help Doctors for Nepal provide Nepalese students from poor backgrounds with scholarships, books and laptops, as well as support rural health care projects.

“We are happy to support such a wonderful organization and to play a small part in helping educate doctors who will have a tremendous impact on the health and well-being of people in some of the most remote places on earth,” said Guido Driesen, president and chief executive officer, Capsugel.

After completing his or her education and after qualifying as a doctor, the student who is sponsored by Doctors for Nepal will return to one of Nepal’s  rural regions for at least four years, so that they can provide emergency medical care. With less than one doctor for every 100,000 patients in Nepal, the organization has sponsored five students with hopes to increase that number in the future.

“Capsugel’s generosity will help us not only change the lives of the medical students we are sponsoring, but also bring a higher standard of medical care to tens of thousands of patients who currently have to walk for days just to see a doctor,” said Dr. Kate Yarrow, founder and chair of Doctors for Nepal.

For more information, visit www.capsugel.com or www.doctorsfornepal.org.

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