JDWNRH

JDWNRH is Bhutan’s national referral hospital, located in Thimphu. It is the top-tier public hospital and the primary teaching site associated with the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB).

JDWNRH houses the country’s specialist consultants — cardiologists, oncologists, paediatric sub-specialists, neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons — and absorbs the most complex referrals from across all twenty dzongkhags.

See also: Chapter Nine.