Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jan 11th, 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 Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 31st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A five-year-old boy presented with five days of dark-colored urine, swelling around his eyelids, and a recent rash over his left lower leg that itself had started over three weeks ago. He lived relatively closer than many patients, a one and a half hour walk from Bayalpata. He was brought in [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 25th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru There is a new HIV diagnosis in the outpatient department for a man whose wife is dead, an infant in respiratory distress in the emergency department, an inpatient unit whose patients seem to be bathing in flies. Another child in the emergency department fell on her elbow from a few feet [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 20th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru This week, a 70-year-old woman with emphysema and heart failure was admitted to Bayalpata Hospital with shortness of breath and limited ability to walk, likely related to heart failure. She had murmurs indicative of aortic and tricuspid valve insufficiency. Based on an echocardiogram (ultrasound) performed by our Health Assistant Uday Kshatriya [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 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
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Dec 3rd, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s community health worker (CHW) program has grown extensively in its first 18 months. Covering an area of more than 20,000 people, throughout six of the area’s villages, Nyaya is now working with nearly 100 CHWs, who are all locally-employed women from the villages that they serve. Recently, Nyaya has been [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Nov 30th, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya ——————– Astha Ramaiya is the Blog Manager for Nyaya Health and a student pursuing her MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tweet This Post
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Reports, Social Justice and Health on Nov 6th, 2011
Posted by Agya Poudyal [Below is the Community Health Worker (CHW) update from Bayalpata Hospital for the month of Bhadra, as well as a story relating the experiences of CHWs in the field.] 1. Community Health Worker (CHW) Data for the Month of Bhadra: Three new categories have been introduced in this month’s table: [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 19th, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 18th, 2011
Posted by Agya Poudyal Each week, over the Nyaya Health team list, both a hospital update and community health worker program update is sent for reflections. Although there has only been one weekly update published in the past, the blog team would like to increase the frequency of notes from Achham to inform readers about [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jul 1st, 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
Posted in Social Justice and Health on May 16th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Here at Bayalpata Hospital, we’ve recently had several visits from respected government and non-government officials / organizations who have questioned our policy of paying our community health workers (CHWs). In reflecting with them and in other conversations, I thought it might be appropriate to say a bit about our position on [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 10th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Since the initial days of Nyaya Health, we have struggled to identify a viable strategy for our community health worker program. Despite a strong vision that community health workers are critical to our work, the program hobbled along for our first two years of existence. During that time, we had four [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Dec 13th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Founder of Nyaya partner organization Tiyatien Health (TH), Raj Panjabi, recently presented TH’s work at the Pop!Tech conference. You can learn more about TH’s work in Liberia and their inspiring community health worker model here: Raj Panjabi: Post-Conflict Health from PopTech on Vimeo. ——————- Ryan Schwarz is the Director of Operations of Nyaya [...]