Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Aug 12th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Shortly after Bayalpata Hospital’s first birthday, the hospital saw it’s 20,000th patient on August 10th 2010. We achieved this milestone with the support, hard work and continued efforts of the government, staff, community, donors, and Nyaya supporters residing both in Nepal and around the world. As Nyaya continues to strive for [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Aug 6th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Recently, Nyaya’s staff at Bayalpata Hospital received a 7 year-old boy who had fallen and sustained significant head injuries. There was concern that he had fractured his skull and had increased pressure inside his skull cavity – a life-threatening condition. He was immediately transferred to Seti Zonal Hospital in Nyaya’s ambulance [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jul 27th, 2010
Posted by Dr. Sona Shilpakar Traveling the final leg of the long journey from Kathmandu to Bayalpata hospital, from the town of Sanfe Bagar up the hill to the Hospital, was far easier than I had expected. I had heard of the road’s previous condition prior to journeying here as a volunteer public health physician. [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Reports on May 13th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya The second east-to-west highway is currently being constructed in Nepal, with an estimated completion date of sometime in the next year. The 1700 km road is a central hill highway, and only the second highway to cross the country. The road starts at Chiyo in Panchthar, and links Kathmandu, Pokhara, Rukum, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 21st, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz In 2009 the Indian Embassy to Nepal generously donated an ambulance to Nyaya Health. Nyaya’s ambulance program serves two primary objectives: Patient transfers – for those patients too ill to be treated at Bayalpata Hospital, the ambulance can provide transfer to other regional hospitals better equipped to provide care Personnel transfer [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Nov 19th, 2009
Posted by Dan Schwarz, following conversations with Ruma Rajbhandari In a blog post last month (“Severe Storms in Achham”), we related the story of a two year old girl who had suffered a traumatic head injury after falling from a height of one storey. At the time, we were happy to report that, despite an [...]
Posted in News on Aug 15th, 2009
Posted by Shefali Oza Nyaya Health thanks the Indian Embassy in Nepal for its generous donation of an ambulance. With the addition of this ambulance, we will now be able to transport patients free of charge to regional hospitals between 5 and 15 hours away for life-threatening conditions we are unable to treat at Bayalpata [...]