Nepal Ambulance Services

Who are we

A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS

The Nepal Ambulance Service was created by a group of committed volunteers. NAS’s volunteer pool includes a wide spectrum of Kathmandu professionals ranging from local physicians, educators, members of international non-governmental organizations, local businesses and hospital executives. As a non-profit organization, NAS relies on these individuals to contribute their expertise and energy.

Board of director

Prof. Paras Aacharya

President

Dr. Paras is Hospital Director of Patan Hospital. He is an internist with keen interest in emergency medicine working at Patan Hospital.

He is also the coordinator of a rural health promotion program dedicated to improving health care in remote areas of Lalitpur.

Prof. Dr Pradeep Vaidya

Immediate Past President

Pradeep is Assistant Dean of Institute of Medicine and Professor of surgery in University Hospital in Nepal. He is Chairman of Disaster committee and made it a model hospital prepared for disaster, which owned praise in the 2015 earthquake. He helped redevelop Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies into Multi-hazard disaster course and conducts it in 12 countries in the SE Asia.

He is the President of Nepal Ambulance Service and National Society for Emergency and Disaster Risk Management and conducts many disaster courses. He developed and conducted many disaster and emergency courses, guidelines and protocols for the Ministry of Health, Nepal.

Mr. Ranjit Acharya

Past President

Ranjit Acharya started his working career early founding Prisma Advertising in 1991, at the age of 21. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Nepal’s most aggressively growing creative advertising agency Prisma Advertising. With a team of 50 young professionals the agency has won many national advertising awards including BEST AGENCY OF THE YEAR for past four consecutive years.

He recently managed a national PEACE campaign for the Asia Foundation-USAID, which has been instrumental in bringing conflict resolution to afflicted areas of the country. Mr. Acharya is a member of Rotary International.

Dr. Anil Bahadur Shrestha

Vice President

Mr. Sharada Bhakta Ranjit

Vice President

Sharada Bhakta Ranjit is Deputy Inspector General (Retired) of Nepal Police where he served nearly 28 years. He is well conversant with security and risk management issues including security planning and monitoring. Having served as a senior police officer during Nepal’s decade long insurgency, he also has considerable first hand experience with armed conflict.

Mr. Ranjit also has international field experience as a UN peace keeper deployed in Haiti and Afghanistan. He is currently working as a security advisor and consultant to a number of private firms in Kathmandu and is also active in a number of social service activities including the Community Police Service Group of Kalimati and as Vice President of Club 50.

Mrs. Barsha Shrestha

General Secretary

Mrs Barsha Shrestha is the Business Head of ICRA Nepal Ltd since August 2018.

On 2008, she had joined Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) as a General Manager (GM), making her the first Woman GM in Private Sector banking in Nepal. She had even led the banking team being the Deputy CEO from 2014 to 2015. Her past professional experience even shows her active involvement as a part of Nabil Bank Ltd since 1984 and resigned the bank as Head- Privilege Banking on 2015.

During her professional journey, she has been recognized by a number of prestigious awards like, “National Woman Award 2009” by Civil Voice for Peace & Development, “Woman Manager Recognition Award 2010” by Management Association of Nepal, “SMS Achiever’s Award 2011” by Association of St. Mary’s Alumnae, Nepal, Succeeded for CEDB to receive membership of “Global Alliance for Banking on Values” in 2013 in Berlin, Germany, the only Nepalese Bank to receive this Award till date.

Dr. Ashish Shrestha

Secretary

Dr. Tumla Lacoul Shah

Treasurer

Dr. Tumla Lacoul Shah is a CEO and Founder of Sukhi Pariwar Clinic since 1990. She was also the Medical Director of Nepal Fertility Care Center since Oct 1995 till July 2010, Senior Medical Officer at Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) since Sept 1989 till Aug 1994, Medical Officer at Tri- Chandra Military Hospital since May 1986 to July 1988 and Resident Medical at Indra Rajya Laxmi Maternity Hospital since Sept 1985 to March 1986.

She is also an author of LUNA, 2018, Published by Ghost writing group Nepal and an author of more than 24 articles published in several National newspapers regarding women’s health.

Mr. Bijaya Bahadur Mali

Member

Bijaya Mali is President of Chhatrapati Free Clinic. He is the creative force behind the transformation of the clinic from a humble first-aid center to a three-time nationally recognized community-run, non-profit charitable day hospital for the underprivileged and the needy.

As founding member-secretary of Kathmandu Ward 17 Disaster Management Committee, Mr. Mali raised community awareness about earthquake related disasters and provided First-aid and search & rescue training to young volunteers.

Mr. Mali is a former elected member of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Council and is active in community development work, the protection of heritage sites and use of clean energy.