http://blog.nyayahealth.org Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/06/follow_up_follow_through/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/06/follow_up_follow_through/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:38 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4157 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/06/follow_up_follow_through/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/27/theoryofchange/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/27/theoryofchange/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:28 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3954 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/27/theoryofchange/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/25/picofwk36/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/25/picofwk36/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:00:39 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4133 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/25/picofwk36/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/20/mohsupport/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/20/mohsupport/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:00:27 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4185 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/20/mohsupport/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/16/transforming_energy_systems/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/16/transforming_energy_systems/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:00:07 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4021 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/16/transforming_energy_systems/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/30/chestxrayreading/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/30/chestxrayreading/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:00:04 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4001 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/30/chestxrayreading/feed/ 0  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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/25/diagnosis-moral-paralysis/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/25/diagnosis-moral-paralysis/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:00:08 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4097 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/25/diagnosis-moral-paralysis/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/23/radiologyrounds/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/23/radiologyrounds/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:00:03 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3969 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/23/radiologyrounds/feed/ 0  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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/21/picofweek31/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/21/picofweek31/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:04 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3935 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/21/picofweek31/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/16/mgmtatmargins/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/16/mgmtatmargins/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:00:57 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3901 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/16/mgmtatmargins/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/14/3hrsfootwfailingheart/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/14/3hrsfootwfailingheart/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:00:34 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4058 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/14/3hrsfootwfailingheart/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/26/mgmtfixcorevaluesnyaya/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/26/mgmtfixcorevaluesnyaya/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:00:58 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3889 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/26/mgmtfixcorevaluesnyaya/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:27 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3744 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/feed/ 0 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: [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/02/picofwk24/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/02/picofwk24/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:50 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3815 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/02/picofwk24/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/26/picofwk23/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/26/picofwk23/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:00:49 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3698 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/10/26/picofwk23/feed/ 1 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. 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