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Before setting up the base hospital we will start the outreach programme. We consider this to be an essential and vitally important part of the project because of the extremely difficult travel conditions in the region. In order to get the outreach work operational within the first year we will initially work from rented accommodation. This programme will start with one doctor and two or three nurses but will ultimately mobilise up to 12 doctors, paramedics and health workers to enable us to take healthcare and health education to the remote villages on a regular basis. The outreach programme will grow to have 2 four wheeled vehicles, each carrying one doctor and one nurse to villages in turn. This will provide each village with general medical health care every alternate day, and specialist care once a week. The driver will also be trained to double as an aide doing dressings and dispensing medicines.

As the project matures we will add four health workers on motorcycles who will visit every village every day, to provide immediate medical help. There is also a plan to identify and train four women in each village who can be available 24 hours a day. They will have some drugs, which they can dispense without a doctor's prescription, so that they can tide the patient over until the doctor’s visit. This will in time, ensure that every village will have some form of health care at anytime of the day or night, every day of the year.