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The Britain Nepal Medical Trust The Britain Nepal Medical Trust was established in 1967 by a group of young doctors whose ambition was to do something of value in a country where their medical skills were urgently required. The Britain Nepal Medical Trust was established in 1967 by a group of young doctors from St Thomas who had an ambition of doing something of value in a part of the world where their medical skills were more urgently required than UK. They departed overland excited and inspired by the opportunity of working in the mountains of the Himalaya and on arrival they were sent to Biratnagar to run the regional hospital. Hungry for the mountains a couple of the team headed off north and within a year the BNMT programme had expanded into the hill districts of the eastern Region starting with a BCG programme they rapidly expanded into tuberculosis control an area which we continue to play and active part today.