Picture of the Week from Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 19th, 2011
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Partners In Health Releases the Program Management Guide
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
Picture of the Week from Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 12th, 2011
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
The Road to Healing
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 9th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas [The following is a letter from Country Director Gregory Karelas, which he sent over our open-access Nyaya member listserve about some recent events in Achham.] Dear Nyaya staff, volunteers and supporters, I wish to share with you a story of perseverance in the face of discord and uncertainty. On September 9th, [...]
Picture of the Week at Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Logistics and Management on Oct 5th, 2011
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
Article Published Describing Bayalpata Hospital’s Morbidity and Mortality Program
Posted in Mortality Reviews, News, Social Justice and Health on Oct 1st, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Over the last two years Nyaya has spearheaded a Morbidity and Mortality Conference (M&M), which aims to provide a venue for Bayalpata Hospital’s clinical staff to critically reflect on and evaluate serious illnesses and deaths that occur. The effort is aimed at improving the quality of the care we offer, particularly [...]
Picture of the week from Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Clinic Staff on Aug 12th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma —————— Ranju Sharma was previously the Program Coordinator at Bayalpata Hospital. She recently completed her BSc at Mount Holyoke and is currently a volunteer with Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
Death Matters: Mortality at Bayalpata Hospital During the First Nineteen Months of Operations
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 13th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Today, sitting outside the X-Ray department with Nyaya volunteer Gregory Karelas, I spent a little over an hour counting deaths. We went through the paper registries, including the 3,240 emergency and 1,259 inpatient registry entries. There have been 28 deaths since the start of Bayalpata Hospital’s operations 19 months ago. There [...]
Bear Bite video
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Mar 24th, 2011
Posted by Sushant Wagley The following video is part of a series focusing on the everyday undertakings at Bayalpata Hospital. Ranging from provider-patient interviews to tours of the Bayalpata Hospital complex, this video series hopes to give a glimpse into the successes, challenges, and experiences of the dedicated Nyaya Health team in Achham. Staff at [...]
Nyaya publishes 2010 Annual Report
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Feb 1st, 2011
Dear friends and family, Today we share with you our 2010 Annual Report – we hope you’ll take a moment to read about the wonderful progress Nyaya and our partners have made this year in Achham, in the rural and impoverished west of Nepal. Nyaya began five years ago, compelled by the simple idea that [...]
Nyaya presents at Brown University
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jan 12th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz, presented at the weekly Brown University Infectious Disease Rounds, discussing our HIV/AIDS management program in Achham. His talk was entitled “Meeting the need: Developing an HIV/AIDS treatment program in the Far West Region, Nepal.” You can view his slides here: ——————- Dan Schwarz is the Executive Director [...]
Nyaya presents at Harvard University
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Dec 29th, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz, presented a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health recently. His talk was entitled, “Developing partnerships for improved global health delivery.” You can watch and listen to Dan’s presentations here. ——————- Dan Schwarz is the Executive Director of Nyaya Health and a student in the Brown [...]
Nyaya presents at Harvard Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 24th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru Nyaya Health Co-Founder Duncan Maru, MD, PHD recently discussed Nyaya Health’s work in his talk on “Implementation Gaps and Quality Chasms: Building Health Systems in Rural Nepal” at the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Noon Conference at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is a resident physician. His slide show is available [...]
Nyaya featured on Norweigan radio
Posted in News on Dec 19th, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya supporters Knut Skyberg and Borgny Ween have been featured in a radio interview inOslo, Norway, discussing our work in Achham, and how they’ve been supporting it. You can listen to the interview here. Nyaya would like to thank not only Knut and Borgny, but all of our supporters. Without our [...]
Support Nyaya this Holiday season
Posted in News on Dec 17th, 2010
Dear friends and family, 2010 has been an extremely exciting year with enormous progress. Significant changes have taken place in Achham since 2008 when Nyaya saw its first patients’. Due to your constant support for health equity, over 50,000 patients have received free health care in one of the poorest regions of South Asia. We’ve [...]