Intermed International, Inc. / DBA Dooley Intermed International is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-sectarian, non-political, private voluntary organization receiving its financial support from private contributions. The purpose of the organization is to provide medical assistance to refugees, children, and villagers in the less privileged parts of the world with emphasis on self-help projects in the areas of preventive medicine, public health, and health worker training.
In 2025 the Organization was made substantial enhancements to the Dhalkebar Eye hospital through the purchase of a state-of-the art surgical microscope, a YAG laser, and a brand new 30 passenger bus to provide transportation for patients residing in remote areas. Throughout 2025, free-of-cost outreach clinics were held twice a month in outlying areas in the Dhalkebar and Janakpurdam areas. The Organization’s ongoing “Gift of Sight” program continues to prevent blindness and restore vision in outlying villages and also provides equipment and supplies to local care providers. The Organization worked cooperatively with Operation Restore Sight in 2025 to bring a team of expert USA-based ophthalmic specialists in a “knowledge exchange” program for local eye care providers, including patient consultations and treatment of complex cases in both the Dhalkebar and Banepa areas.
Ongoing Programs in Nepal include:
Orphanage Eco-Home – One of the Organization’s major initiatives has been the support of homeless and abandoned children. This led to the Organization helping develop and construct an Orphanage Eco-Home in the Sankhu area, outside the Kathmandu Valley. The Organization has continued to support these “at-risk” children throughout 2025, providing ongoing funding for operations, food, supplies, and private school education, and warm winter clothing items. The Organization’s nutrition enhancement program provides nutritious meals and benefits the children through on-site production of eggs, goat milk, and vegetables. The “urgent need” for these children is assistance with everyday items such as food, healthcare, clothing, school uniforms, shoes, as well as blankets and coats for the cold winter months. The organization also supplements school fees and educational expenses of children through sponsorship via designated donations.
Female Healthcare Worker Training Program – Beginning in 2019, the Organization organized and funded the first formal training programs for Female Healthcare Workers in the Banepa and Sankhu Districts, outside of Kathmandu. These volunteers serve as the front-line community healthcare and social workers, often traveling by foot along rugged trails to provide care in outlying villages. Prior to these training programs, they had received little, if any, medical training or instruction. The Organization has organized and run an ongoing series of professionally instructed intensive training programs for these women, including all training materials plus a modest stipend to facilitate meals and transportation during training. Upon successful completion of the course, the Organization provides each healthcare worker with a comprehensive portable medical kit. Based on the tremendous success of this training program, the Organization continued to organize and fund this program throughout 2025 and successfully expanded it to include its first training program in the Terai region, with plans to continue this specialized training in the future. The Organization is actively seeking funds to expand this program.
Bhakundebesi Eye Clinic – The Organization funded the construction of a new satellite eye clinic in the village of Bhakundebesi, which opened in December 2017, and has continued to provide services to hundreds of local villagers through 2025, including high quality eye and vision care, eyeglasses, and providing sight-restoring surgeries at the main hospital in Banepa. Services are provided on a sliding scale so that impoverished villagers receive care completely free of cost.
Pema Ts’al Sakya Monastic Institute – In 2024 and 2025, the Organization facilitated the purchase of desktop computers and related equipment and furnishings, as well as a stipend for a professional computer instructor. Pema Ts’al Sakya Monastic Institute provides free-of-cost education, primarily to students from the Mustang and other economically deprived areas of Nepal. The Institute has often assisted the Organization by helping arrange outreach healthcare and blindness prevention programs in remote areas of Nepal.
Gift of Sight Program – Throughout 2025, the Organization continued its efforts to prevent blindness and restore vision, among the most cost-effective medical interventions in existence. The Organization completed the construction of a new 3-story full-service Eye Hospital in Dhalkebar, Nepal near the border of India in September 2022. Throughout 2025, the new Eye Hospital was fully operational with a full-time Chief Ophthalmologist and support staff. Multiple outreach eye camps were conducted throughout 2025 at both the Bhakundebesi facility and the new full-service Eye Hospital in Dhalkebar, preventing blindness and restoring eyesight to hundreds of villagers. The new Eye Hospital continued to expand its capabilities with the addition of a new digital surgical microscope, a YAG laser and a brand-new 30-passenger bus for patient transportation. All services are provided on a sliding scale so that impoverished villagers receive care completely free of cost.
The Organization continues to collaborate with sight-related medical organizations in multiple countries, including prospective future projects in Jamaica, Nepal, India, and Borneo for future “Gift of Sight” projects in underserved areas, with a focus on preventing blindness and restoring sight.
Operation Restore Sight “ORS” – The Organization has partnered with ORS on multiple projects geared toward blindness prevention and sight restoration. Funds were initially expended for the construction of the new full-service eye hospital in Dhalkebar, Nepal to provide care to a vast disadvantaged population from both Nepal and India. Designated donations were received in 2018, 2023 and 2025 to facilitate eye care programs and related expenses for cooperative outreach eye and vision projects with the ORS team of eye care professionals.
In 2025, the Organization worked cooperatively with Reiyukai Eiko Masunaga Eye Hospital, based in rural Nepal, and ORS in a cooperative effort to provide advanced care to patients and enhance the expertise of clinical staff. Nepal is resource constrained with limited access to specialized training and an urgent need for up-to-date knowledge and surgical skill training. The Organization’s activities with Operation Restore Sight in 2025 included organizing a team of USA based ophthalmology experts for in-person patient consultations and surgeries in Dhalkebar, plus “knowledge exchange” training and complex surgeries in Banepa in cooperation with Nepal-based Reiyukai Eiko Masunaga Eye Hospital. The combined team performed over 250 sight restoring surgeries and also met with the President of Nepal and the mayors of 15 surrounding districts to promote outreach eye care in remote regions.
