The establishment and beginning of this college at Tansen, where people have firm determination to develop this beautiful town on the basis of three mottos, education, health and tourism has enhanced their inspiration, eagerness and happiness . Realizing the need of a medical college in the western hilly region the concept of Lumbini Medical College & Teaching Hospital Pvt. Ltd. emerged. Lumbini Medical College & Teaching Hospital Pvt. Ltd. is located in the lap of lotus Pond "Kamal pokhari" of Pravas in the south of the peaceful town of Tansen municipality, Palpa district, Lumbini Zone. Tansen, the district administration headquarters of Palpa one out of 75 districts in Nepal, has been a Municipality since 1957. Lumbini Medical College is named such because it is near to Lumbini, a place in south western Terai of Nepal, the birthplace of Prince Siddhartha, later to be the Buddha Shakyamuni the apostle of peace and the light of Asia. Lumbini in Sanskrit means "lovely" and is a Buddhist Pilgrimage. Now, it has been upgraded to a 600 bedded hospital with expansion of various services and facilities like CT scan, Fluoroscopy, Laparoscopy and minimal invasive surgery, Uretero – renoscopy (URS) and ICPL, highly equipped operation theaters, subspecialty services etc.