Lalitpur Nursing Campus

Welcome to Lalitpur Nursing Campus

The Patan Academy of Health Sciences is a public, not-for-profit tertiary academic institution dedicated to improving rural health in Nepal by training health workers.

The goal of PAHS is for its graduates to not only provide much-needed medical care in rural Nepal but also eventually become leaders in health care policy, dedicated to improving the health of Nepal's remote and destitute populations. Furthermore, PAHS will serve as a model of innovative medical education in a developing country, which can be replicated elsewhere.

PAHS is located in the city of Patan, Nepal, which is adjacent to the capital city of Kathmandu. PAHS is based at Patan Hospital, which is the major teaching hospital for the academy.

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the health care available to many Nepalis is clearly inadequate. One of the main reasons for this is the unwillingness of health care personnel, particularly doctors, to serve in Nepal’s remote and rural areas. The country’s current system of medical education has failed to address this. The Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) is dedicated to improving the health status of the people of Nepal by producing doctors who are willing and able to provide health care to disadvantaged Nepalis living in remote or rural areas. The academy initially consisted of a School of Medicine (SoM), which began to teach prospective doctors in 2010.