Home  News Archive News from HealthServe: New Year’s honour for
INF Medical MissionaryMarch 2003
New Year’s honour for
INF Medical Missionary
Ellen Findlay has been made a ‘Member of the
British Empire’ (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s
Honours List. Ellen, 60, from Wishaw in Scotland,
has worked for the International Nepal Fellowship
for more than thirty years. She has been given the
award in recognition of her outstanding service to
the people of Nepal.
After her first arrival in Nepal in 1970 Ellen spent
twelve years working and training Nepali colleagues
at INF’s Green Pastures Hospital and Rehabilitation
Centre in Pokhara, mainly treating leprosy patients.
She then spent a further twelve years working and
training Nepali colleagues at the government’s
Western Regional Hospital in Pokhara, where she
helped to establish the emergency out-patient
department.
In 1994 Ellen’s INF career
went into a third phase. She
became the Co-ordinator
and Training Officer in
INF’s Camps Programme,
which delivers medical care
to poor people throughout
the western part of Nepal.
Well-known to many people
in Nepal as someone with a
highly infectious sense of humour, Ellen says of her
award: ‘The British ambassador to Nepal told me
the news over the phone, and I thought he was
joking. I was shocked - I couldn’t believe it! It’s like
an award for INF, really. I think it’s amazing that the
Nepali people have put up with me all these years!’
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