{"entity":{"id":"jdwnrh-bhutan","kind":"institution","name":"Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital","aka":["JDWNRH","National Referral Hospital, Thimphu"],"tldr":"Bhutan's national referral and teaching hospital in Thimphu. It has gynaecological cancer care since 2008, cancer surgery, palliative chemotherapy, and houses the national cancer registry.","summary":"The hospital's mandate is to function as the National Referral Hospital, the regional referral hospital for the western region and the teaching hospital of Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, and to manage referral of patients abroad, according to its own site. Its obstetrics and gynaecology department lists gynaecologic oncology since 2008, colposcopy since 2002, basic palliative care and basic palliative chemotherapy; its orthopaedics department lists a musculoskeletal tumour clinic and limb preservation surgery. Its authors publish from a Department of Oncosurgery. Bhutan's population-based cancer registry was established in the hospital in 2014. The National Cancer Grid lists it as a member cancer centre or unit. IAEA DIRAC lists no radiotherapy centre in Bhutan. Coordinates are Nominatim's.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"JDWNRH: mandates","url":"https://jdwnrh.gov.bt/about-us/"},{"label":"JDWNRH: obstetrics and gynaecology department","url":"https://jdwnrh.gov.bt/clinical-departments/gynecology/"},{"label":"JDWNRH: orthopaedics department","url":"https://jdwnrh.gov.bt/clinical-departments/orthopedics/"},{"label":"National Cancer Grid: member list","url":"https://www.ncgindia.org/hospitals-and-institutions/members"},{"label":"Clinical and epidemiological profile of colorectal cancer in Bhutan, Department of Oncosurgery authors (BMC Cancer 2025)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-15037-4"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["cervical","colorectal"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["bhutan-population-based-cancer-registry","bhutan-cancer-society"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Thimphu","country":"BT","lat":27.463,"lng":89.638,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://jdwnrh.gov.bt","programs":["Gynaecologic oncology (since 2008)","Colposcopy and treatment of cervical precancer","Basic palliative chemotherapy","Musculoskeletal tumour surgery","Referral of patients abroad"]},"route":"/institutions/jdwnrh-bhutan/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"cervical","kind":"cancer","name":"Cervical cancer","route":"/cancers/cervical/"},{"id":"colorectal","kind":"cancer","name":"Colorectal cancer","route":"/cancers/colorectal/"}],"institution":[{"id":"bhutan-cancer-society","kind":"institution","name":"Bhutan Cancer Society","route":"/institutions/bhutan-cancer-society/"},{"id":"bhutan-population-based-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Population-Based Cancer Registry of Bhutan","route":"/institutions/bhutan-population-based-cancer-registry/"}]}}