Dr Kulesh Bahadur Thapa

Dr Kulesh Bahadur Thapa is a Consultant Paediatrician and Head of the Department of the Paediatric Department at Nepal Police Hospital since 1985. He completed his MD from People’s Friendship University (Russia) in 1990. He gained Diploma in Child Health from Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (Nepal) in 1990.

He started his career as an Inspector of Police and retired holding the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police. He also had added responsibility of Administrative Division of the Hospital as he rose in ranks.

He is involved in public health and adolescent health and started an adolescent health counselling service at the Police Hospital.

He has been involved in the development of the SOP of the Hospital disaster Preparedness Plan. He looks after the children’ health of the police and their family, and also the disaster management aspect of the hospital, organization and preparation of the staff. He is also a designer and instructor for the Basic Search and Rescue Training for the community. He is a team member and the lead trainer for the MFR training in the UNDP project of CBDRR program of the Chhatrapati Free Clinic. He is a monitor for the Helping Babies Breathe Programme which is introduced in Kathmandu hospitals and in the country since 2013.