About United Mission Hospital, Tansen

At present the hospital has 313 Nepali Employees (including trainees) and 8 mission appointees from six different countries, who work mostly as senior doctors in a teaching role, or in other support roles. The staff are grouped under the major divisions, Nursing, Medical, Administration, and the two newer divisions of community Health and Pastoral Care.

The Medical Division comprises the doctors and paramedical departments, Laboratory, Physiotherapy, Dental, Anaesthesia, Out Patient Department, and Pharmacy. We have 6 posts for surgeons, at present two are trained orthopaedic surgeons, and 8 posts for senior medical officers, who are General Practitioners, Paediatricians, an Anaesthetist, and Medical Officers with special training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Internal Medicine. There are six resident medical officers who are either on the MDGP training course or are just post internship. We are accredited by NMC to train ten interns per year.

The Nursing division includes Ward Nursing, Housekeeping and Laundry, Operating Room and Minor Operating room staff and Central Sterilisation Department. We have Bachelor level as well as certificate and diploma level nurses. The nursing students from Tansen Nursing School do their practical training on the wards. The administrative Division includes the Managerial, Accounts, Cashiers, Stores, Purchasing, Security, Workshop, Guesthouse and Garden

The Community Health Department staffs the town clinic MCH clinic jointly with Nepal Government and runs Health Post Strengthening, Post Partum and Healthy Schools Program in the community, and has recently opened a Community Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre.