Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on Feb 6th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru I interact with our patients briefly, in the context of a consultation by one of our clinical team members. For most of the patients with whom I consult, I will never know whether we had the right diagnosis or the right treatment. Without a clear mechanism for following up with our patients, I [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jan 27th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru We in the development, global health delivery, and social justice businesses seek to change current conditions that produce poverty, injustice, and ill-health. On the one hand, our vision is often ambitious and over-sized for our levels of experience both as practitioners and visitors in communities that can remain unfamiliar even after [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management on Jan 25th, 2012
Posted by Tess Panizales ————- Tess Panizales is the Quality Program Manager of the Department of Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jan 20th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz This past week, Nyaya Health Nepal received a further allocation of 30lakh rupees (approximately $35,700 USD) from the Ministry of Health of Nepal. As part of Nyaya Health Nepal’s public private partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health to administer services at Bayalpata Hospital, the Ministry has made the strong commitment [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Jan 16th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru As I wrote in a recent tumblr post, since the early days of the Sanfe Clinic, energy has been a central challenge here in Achham. Back in July, with assistance from both the Nepal Government and from the Monsanto Electronic Materials Company (MEMC) Foundation, our partners at Gham Power installed a [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 30th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our patients often walk or are carried several hours to receive care, and in evaluating such patients, our providers often order an x-ray. Our providers are highly skilled in x-ray diagnosis, but, unlike most doctors in the United States and other resource-rich areas, they do not have the benefit of having [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 25th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru There is a new HIV diagnosis in the outpatient department for a man whose wife is dead, an infant in respiratory distress in the emergency department, an inpatient unit whose patients seem to be bathing in flies. Another child in the emergency department fell on her elbow from a few feet [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 23rd, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru We had engaging x-ray rounds today at Bayalpata Hospital. On rounds the day before, we had been frustrated by the inefficiency and low quality of reading x-rays at the patient’s bedside without a viewbox. Viewing x-rays at the bedside also did not afford us an opportunity to give meaningful feedback to [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2011
Posted by Jesse Brady ————- Jesse Brady is the Blog Editor of Nyaya Health and is currently pursuing her MS in International Medicine at Montana State University. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 16th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru In September of 2011, Bayalpata Hospital in rural Achham, Nepal almost collapsed under the weight of its own staff discontent. The hospital, a government facility, had been largely abandoned until 2009 when our organization Nyaya Health endeavored to open it in partnership with local and national authorities. Since then the hospital [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 14th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru She arrived walking, her sandals dusty. Her small heart, failing her, literally bounding out of her chest, somehow carried her three hours from her village and up the mountain to our small hospital in remote Achham, Nepal. I first saw her after being called by Chanakya Timilsina, our Health Assistant, who [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Nov 26th, 2011
The Management Center highlighted Nyaya Health and its core values in the recent edition of “The Management Fix.” Jerry Hauser , CEO of The Management Center, commends Nyaya’s core values of efficiency, results, and transparency, and references the introductory email sent to new Nyaya employees which features these values. The article is available here. Tweet This Post
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Reports, Social Justice and Health on Nov 6th, 2011
Posted by Agya Poudyal [Below is the Community Health Worker (CHW) update from Bayalpata Hospital for the month of Bhadra, as well as a story relating the experiences of CHWs in the field.] 1. Community Health Worker (CHW) Data for the Month of Bhadra: Three new categories have been introduced in this month’s table: [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Nov 2nd, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya ——————– Astha Ramaiya is the Blog Manager for Nyaya Health and a student pursuing her MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management on Oct 26th, 2011
Posted by Jesse Brady ————- Jesse Brady is the Blog Editor of Nyaya Health and is currently pursuing her MS in International Medicine at Montana State University. Tweet This Post