The Devi Ma Kunja is an Ayurvedic hospital in the rural village of Sipadol

Sipadol

Sipadol is a village and Village Development Committee in Bhaktapur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4568 with 796 houses in it....

, Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. The hospital provides free or low-cost healthcare especially in the area of Ayurvedic women's health. The hospital was founded by Dr. Sarita Shrestha

Sarita Shrestha

Sarita Shrestha MD, OBGYN, BAMS, is an Ayurvedic physician, professor, writer, founder and medical director of the Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Shrestha is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of Ayurveda in the United States and the authority in Ayurvedic...

 MD(Ayur), OBGYN, BAMS, the first female Ayurvedic physician in Nepal and its first Ayurvedic OBGYN.

Facility

The hospital has thirty beds and a family planning and birthing center. There is also a medicinal herb garden that helps to supply the pharmacy and offers the full range of panchakarma treatments.

Teaching Programs

Devi Ma Kunja offers clinical internships for the international community of medical doctors, midwives and Ayurvedic practitioners. The training is based in the hospital and includes work camps to different rural villages in Nepal.