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Dr. Jampa Khedup, head of the College, will make a Europe tour this fall. Countries to visit are France, Holland and Germany.

The entrance exam for the new admission for the 6th Batch will be in October 2010. Application for the new admission is open.

The 5th Batch students did their 3rd year mid-semester exam at the end of August. They will go for their annual herbal identification tour in West Sikkim in the beginning of September. Still additional financial support for this trip is needed and we would like to invite you to sponsor (a part of) this trip.

During mid March all our doctors and 5th Batch students went to Dharamsala, north India to attend the 2nd National Conference cum Workshop on Tibetan Medicine.

The senior class of nine female students appeared for their oral exams in March and for the written exam in April. For six of them the special oral exam of the Three Tantra's was successfully held in May. After this they had a month holiday, and now they are doing their internship. The result of their exam will only be out on the next Chagpori commemoration day on the 6th of May, 2011.

In the meanwhile we have opened in a new rented place the pharmacy with the machines which were donated by the Bep Aten Foundation from Holland. We are very happy that from now onwards we will be able to manufacture medicines on a greater scale. And we plan to have them quality checked regularly, nevertheless the place is too small to meet all the GMP guidelines.

We are happy to inform you that especially our clinic in Darjeeling town is running successfully in the meanwhile. Because we have our graduates and a coming up of better production of medicines, we are thinking of opening more clinics in the near future.
We will keep you informed about this.

Both the Health Kalon (minister) and Health Secretary from Dharamsala visited Chagpori in April. The main reason for their visit was to prepare the ground-work for the taking over of Chagpori by the Health Dept. of the Tibetan Govt. in Exile (Central Tibetan Administration). We had a good meeting with them. The Health Secretay visited also Takdah and Salugara land. The Kalon visited Takdah last November already.

We are happy that in September 2009, Chagpori’s recognition by the Council of Tibetan Medicine is prolonged till September 2011.