Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jul 31st, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz <beep> <beep> <beep>…I open my eyes groggily; the “line” (electricity) has come back. <beep> I glance at my mobile – it’s 3:19am. <beep> The beeping annoys me, but it helps to wake me up so that I can get work done in the few minutes that we have electricity. It’s the [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jul 28th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Dr. Arjun Karki, the vice chancellor of the Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS), recently gave a presentation to a couple of Nyaya members on the PAHS model of medical education and health system development. Working in Achham, Nyaya has faced a shortage of human resources because of its remoteness, lack [...]
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz In celebration of its first year of services, Bayalpata celebrated its first anniversary over the weekend with the whole community. This day, meant to symbolize not only successes thus far, but more importantly, the growth still to come in the future, was marked by the planting of over 100 trees, shrubs, [...]
Posted in News on Jul 18th, 2010
Posted by Bibhav Acharya In January 2010, we received an enthusiastic email from a Nepali living in Norway who was impressed with Nyaya’s work and wanted to fundraise for Achham. A few months later, Chhavi Raj Bhatt and his team raised over $10,000 at a concert and birthday party in Oslo. We asked them a [...]
Posted in News on Jul 14th, 2010
Posted by Jason Andrews On July 11, 2010, Nyaya Health inaugurated its Antiretoviral Therapy Clinic at Bayalpata Hospital. In partnership with the National Centre for AIDS & STD Control (NCASC), Nyaya Health will now be able to provide comprehensive care including antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV in our large catchment area in Achham. [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jul 13th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Bayalpata Hospital has recently been approved by the regional District Health Office to begin The Safe Motherhood Program, in which expectant mothers can be financially reimbursed for attending antenatal care (ANC) visits and delivering in the hospital. Given that Achham suffers from one of the highest maternal mortality rates in South [...]
Posted in News on Jul 12th, 2010
Dear friends, One year ago, Nyaya joined with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population to open the Bayalpata Hospital and enhance health services to the Achham region. It’s been a humbling and amazing year, and we’ve had many successes. Many of these have been written about on our blog, and in and in commemoration [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Jun 30th, 2010
Posted by Sushant Wagley From June 11 – 13, the 14th annual America Nepal Medical Foundation’s conference was held in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. For the second year in a row, Nyaya was invited to present at the 2010 ANMF conference. Nyaya’s presentation – “Telemedince as Collaborative Medicine” – described Nyaya’s experiences with telemedicine in rural [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jun 26th, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz The Achham district, where Bayalpata Hospital is located, continues to suffer from severe energy shortages. As a result, periods of up to 18 hours of load-shedding–scheduled electricity outages– occur daily. In the face of these outages, the Nyaya Health team works to accommodate our high daily energy demands for medical services. Bayalpata Hospital currently [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jun 21st, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD We have spoken before about the lack of transparency and accountability among those working in the fields of global health and global development. This is a systemic problem at multiple levels: the disempowerment of the so-called “beneficiaries” of global health and development projects; persistent memes of colonialism and racism that dog [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jun 14th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD Electricity is one of those basic public goods — like public schools and hospitals and safe water supplies — whose expansion tells a fundamental story about where a society is going, the power of its citizenry, the priorities of its leaders. The distribution of these public goods gives a [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on May 21st, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation have awarded Nyaya Health a $10,000 grant for 2010 operations. The Rubin Foundation supports arts and culture, health and human services, and civil liberty and social justice initiatives in the Himalayan and New York City regions. This will be the second grant the Rubin Foundation [...]
Posted in News, Patient Stories, Reports, Social Justice and Health on May 16th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nepali film-maker Subina Shrestha has produced a new documentary on birthing practices in western Nepal and their effect on women’s health. The production was recently aired in an episode of WITNESS, an Al Jazeera television production. Shrestha explores why Nepal has among the highest rates of maternal mortality in South Asia; [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Mortality Reviews, News on May 8th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Dr. Duncan Maru, MD, PHD, a co-founder of Nyaya Health, has received the Dr. Frederick Lovejoy Research and Education Award from Children’s Hospital of Boston. This award will support the mortality and morbidity review program that Nyaya has been piloting at Bayalpata Hospital as one prong of Nyaya’s broader transparency and [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Reports on May 3rd, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya presented on their work at the 7th World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C. earlier this month. The poster presentation – “Transparent operations to enhance accountability and collaboration within global health” – discussed Nyaya’s work to develop a transparent organizational model. You can read more about the WHCC Affordable Health [...]