Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 31st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Access to organizational documents are a key aspect of transparency. Overall, Nyaya has done a solid job documenting what we do so that our staff, leadership team, and volunteers are able to access the “institutional memory” needed to get work done. We’ve had a hodge-podge of a system in accomplishing this, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 25th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru “Duita bihana ma, Duita sanjh ko, la”. In counseling patients on how to take their medicines, the Bayalpata Hospital pharmacist Raviman Kunwar has the cadence of a Kathmandu micro-bus helper calling out to passengers to get on board, or an auctioneer selling his wares. At twenty-one years old, complete with stylish [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on May 22nd, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Much has been written and talked about with regards to the need for organizations, corporations, and governments to operate more transparently. The non-profit sector is particularly problematic, as the Global Accountability Report has made clear. Nyaya Health for our part has long held an organizational mandate of transparent operations. Operationalizing transparency [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 13th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Please consider the following definition. Transformation: “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.” (OED 2011, online) Now please look at the photos below. One is what one Bayalpata staff bathroom once looked like. One is what it now looks like. One is what a Bayalpata patient bed once looked [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 10th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma When a TB patient under DOTS at Bayalpata Hospital missed to come to the hospital, Dr. Bikash who is looking over the case went to the patient’s house 30 minutes ride from the hospital. The patient hadn’t been able to come to the hospital the day before because he was bedridden [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 5th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Electricity is a central component to healthcare delivery, and where we work in Achham getting reliable energy is a challenge. I am hoping that this post will serve as a “before” snapshot at our energy system prior to the installation of our new solar system. We start at the single phase [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Apr 29th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma Locals walk on the Budhiganga riverbed as they return from a Temple nearby. The Budhiganga river is one of the major rivers in the far west region of Nepal which originates in the northern neighboring district of Bajura and flows through Achham. During monsoon, the river swells up to cover all [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Apr 26th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Data management is a core process of any healthcare operation. Nyaya Health has a central mission of using data to drive our services, evaluate our outcomes, and to disseminate our work to others. We have published papers and have extensive data uploaded to our wiki. Our data management program has a [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 22nd, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Formerly a grain shed, the Sanfe Bagar Health Center (Sanfe Clinic) is the most beautiful health facility in Achham today. It sits above the bazaar in beautiful Sanfe Valley, amidst fields of yellow flowers and a 360 degree view of some of the striking scenery I’ve ever seen. In 2006, Nyaya [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 10th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Since the initial days of Nyaya Health, we have struggled to identify a viable strategy for our community health worker program. Despite a strong vision that community health workers are critical to our work, the program hobbled along for our first two years of existence. During that time, we had four [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Apr 7th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Upon arriving at Bayalpata Hospital, one might expect to be greeted by a gentleman wearing a black coat and dark slacks, a bright blue scarf and hair that is immaculately styled, all contributing to a veneer of professionalism that is patent and palpable. He might appear unannounced with surprising promptness and [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 3rd, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma —————— Ranju Sharma is currently the Program Coordinator at Bayalpata Hospital. She recently completed her BSc at Mount Holyoke. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management on Mar 27th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma Siddheswor Village’s Community Health Worker Leader (CHWL) Satya Sunar w/ the Community Health Workers (CHWs) at one of their weekly meetings.(From left, CHW Maheswori Kunwar, CHW Tulsi Kunwar, CHW Damyanti Kunwar, CHW Sita Kunwar and CHW Leader Satya Sunar). —————— Ranju Sharma is currently the Program Coordinator at Bayalpata Hospital. She [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Mar 16th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Nyaya Health has long had a stated goal of developing “scaleable models”. This objective is both noble and alluring; wouldn’t it be great to work on something in one place that could solve problems in other similarly impoverished areas? The world, after all, has an overwhelming number of communities confronting similar issues of [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Mortality Reviews, News on Mar 12th, 2011
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari Note: The following post has graphic content It seemed like it would be a quiet day at Bayalpata Hospital—the Outpatient Department queue was much shorter than the 200 patients that we had been averaging almost every day over the last week. The government had declared a national day of mourning for a past [...]