Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News on Sep 30th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru We have released our ultrasound rollout report (click to download) detailing the first month of our ultrasound program. Diagnostic imaging is largely unavailable to rural, impoverished communities throughout the world. In the area where Nyaya Health works in the district of Achham in western Nepal, there is no ultrasound capacity for [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Sep 20th, 2008
Posted by Dr. Aditya Sharma, MD A 10 year old boy with epilepsy had a seizure and fell into a fire, severely burning his hand. As is often the case, he didn’t come to our clinic until about 14 hours after the injury. He had a mixture of second and third degree burns, having lost [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Sep 15th, 2008
Posted by Dr. Aditya Sharma, MD A fifteen year old boy was climbing a tree near his house to collect guava fruit when he lost his balance and feel out of the tree. He wasn’t very high in the tree, but was impaled on one of the branches near the bottom. The wound wasn’t very [...]
Click here to download our Semiannual Report Achham has seen a massive change in health delivery over the last four months. Since the opening of our clinic in April, we have served over 6200 patients. We have continued to work with the government and local citizens to achieve our goal of scaling up health services [...]