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 [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jul 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz President and Co-founder of Nyaya Health Duncan Maru spoke recently at the Harvard Kennedy School about Nyaya’s work and challenges moving forward. Following his talk there was a panel discussion with Ryan Schwarz, Nyaya’s Director of Operations, and Bibhav Acharya, Nyaya’s Executive Vice-President. You can view Duncan’s talk here: ———————- Ryan [...]
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Posted in News on Apr 13th, 2011
Bibhav Acharya, Executive Vice-President of Nyaya Health was invited to present at an interaction between non resident Nepalis and the two ambassadors (Nepali ambassador to the US and the US ambassador to Nepal) in Washington DC. This invitation-only event was organized by The Non-Resident Nepalis Association ( NRN) National Coordination Council of USA and featured in the Nepal News. [...]
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Posted in News on Mar 18th, 2011
Nyaya was cited in MyRepublica, in an article describing the role of Nepalis abroad who contributed towards development in Nepal. The article can be accessed here. We would like to thank the author, Saurav Thapa and MyRepublica for featuring our work. Tweet This Post
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Feb 10th, 2011
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Imagine that you live in a region that is connected to the rest of the world via only one road. The road has frequent landslides and it takes 12 hours to get to the nearest airport and 16 hours to the nearest intensive care unit (ICU). All of your supplies like [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jan 31st, 2011
In this week’s edition of Nepali Times, a premier English-language newspaper in Nepal, Bibhav Acharya, Nyaya Health’s Executive Vice-President, writes about several challenges that Achham faces. The article goes beyond listing examples of lack of resources and argues that Achham is less “resource-poor” and more “resource-denied”. Mr. Acharya writes about price-fixing and other man-made disasters [...]
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Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Bikash Gauchan and Dr. Amir Bista, Nyaya’s two physicians, were running out of options for a very sick 17 year old girl from a remote village in Achham. She had been to several hospitals in the region and had conflicting lab results and no clear diagnosis. Despite our best efforts, [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Nov 1st, 2010
Posted by Bibhav Acharya In this photo essay, Bibhav Acharya, one of Nyaya’s Board members, captures some of the changes that Achham and Nyaya have seen in the last three years. THEN: Bayalpata Hospital was built in the 1980s by the Nepali Government. However, due to political pressure, all equipment was moved to another hospital [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Oct 8th, 2010
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Prativa Pandey, Medical Director of CIWEC Travel Medicine Center Kathmandu, made a commitment to support Bayalpata Hospital after she visited the region and learned about the needs firsthand. Instead of donating what she thought we needed, she asked us to prepare a list of items of highest need. We held a [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Dec 22nd, 2009
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Prativa Pandey, Director of the CIWEC Clinic in Kathmandu, recently visited the Bayalpata Hospital and has since offered to support Nyaya Health with a large donation of hospital supplies and equipment, and further ongoing support through the CIWEC Clinic. We had the opportunity to ask her some questions about her [...]
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Posted by Bibhav Acharya One of Nyaya Health’s board members, Bibhav Acharya, reflects on a patient’s story from the summer of 2008. She went into cardiac arrest as she was carried into the clinic. The men carrying her said she had been bitten by a snake. We put everything on hold and rushed to assist [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 15th, 2008
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Jhapat Thapa (Nyaya’s Medical Director) and I were summoned to Mangalsen, the district headquarters of Achham, to attend a district-wide meeting of NGOs and government bodies to tackle HIV. Mangalsen is a 7-hour hike from Sanfebagar and our trip started at the far left of the picture above and we [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 8th, 2008
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Chris, Mahendra, Bikram and I hiked up to Prabha to have conversations with folks who live there about their access to healthcare and about Nyaya’s clinic, which was opening soon. As we watched, listened and spoke, we learned a little more about suffering, health, nyaya (Nepali word for justice), and we [...]
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