Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Feb 17th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz After being absent from Bayalpata for nearly six months, I returned in late December with great excitement to see the many changes and steps forward that have transpired since I’ve been gone. And indeed, I have not been met with disappointment. While our staff had continued to work diligently, serving the [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Feb 15th, 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 Mortality Reviews, Patient Stories on Feb 13th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru Here is a man we can help. He’s a forty-two year old farmer and migrant worker to India who is extremely sick, but fixable. I first heard about him a few minutes ago from one of our superb Health Assistant, Chanakya, who found me while I was going through expired medicines [...]
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 Patient Stories on Feb 5th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru A middle-aged woman presented with abdominal pain, bloating, and vaginal bleeding. A few years ago, she had had some gynecologic surgery in India where her son was working. They had no records of the procedure, nor did they know of what precisely the surgery had entailed. She had suffered no fever or weight loss. Our [...]
Posted in staff profiles on Feb 3rd, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s team is composed of an impressive array of over 100 staff members in Achham, and countless volunteers around the world. Our Country Director, Gregory Karelas, acts as the fulcrum for all of our operations in Achham, coordinating the work of both our Achhami staff and international volunteers. Despite this, his [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff on Feb 1st, 2012
Posted by Richa Pokhrel ————————– Richa was born in Nepal but grew up in Iowa. She is currently the Director of Evaluation and Research at Nyaya Health. Richa has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh. Tweet This Post
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya Health was started by a group of Yale students 6 years ago. It began when one of our founders, Jason Andrews, traveled to the Achham region and learned about the dearth of healthcare in the region, and the injustices faced daily by Achhami citizens. Over the last six years our [...]
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 Social Justice and Health on Jan 23rd, 2012
Posted by Agya Poudyal Doctors in Achham are God. Ask the woman with a sick ten month old baby waiting outside the outpatient department (OPD) at Bayalpata Hospital and she will convince you that they are. As one of our doctors and his clinical staff walk the long path to the OPD, a horde of [...]
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 Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Jan 14th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru In Boston, I often see patients bounced around from one hospital or specialist to another. It is a bit surprising to see this happen here in Achham, where the main challenge is a dearth of clinicians and hospitals, rather than an excess of them. A sixty year old woman had been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2012
Posted by Bikash Gauchan I recently presented at the World Organization of Family Doctors’ South Asia Conference. This conference was hosted by the Federation of Family Physicians’ Associations of India (FFPAI), and was held in Mumbai from December 16-18, 2011. I was the only presenter from Nepal to give a free oral presentation on my research, and had [...]