Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru
Nyaya Health Blog was recently nominated for medgadget.com’s 2009 Best Medical Weblog competition.
To our writers and readers: thank you for your continued support and solidarity! Please help support us by making sure to cast your comments about our blog prior to the January 24 deadline.
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Reports, Social Justice and Health on Nov 30th, 2009
Posted by Ryan Schwarz
Nyaya uses multiple “Web 2.0″ tools to facilitate our work in rural Nepal. Due to the challenges of rural healthcare delivery, most notably the lack of consistent power, using web-based technologies has greatly enhanced Nyaya’s ability to continue its work. In this week’s issue of the well-regarded medical science journal PLoS Medicine, [...]
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 initially [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Oct 29th, 2009
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD
Nyaya Health is undertaking an innovative experiment in operations management by reviewing all deaths that occur at the Bayalpata hospital and identifying systems-level changes to prevent future deaths. Programs aimed at assessing the root causes of deaths can help to assess effectiveness and can identify programmatic weaknesses. Implementing such [...]
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2009
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD
EquityEditors Association (EEA), a non-profit organization, co-founded by Nyaya Health, is a network of socially conscious medical, scientific, and technical editors, and is currently recruiting new writers and volunteers.
The members of EEA are a group of professional editors who leverage their writing skills to help finance innovative solutions to global [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jan 1st, 2009
Posted by Duncan Maru
Peptic ulcer disease, a condition in which the lining of the stomach is damaged, is commonplace throughout the world. If left untreated, peptic ulcer disease can lead to severe disability and, if an ulcer ruptures, death. Helicobacter pylori is the bacterial cause of this condition. H. pylori is also [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Dec 19th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru
Over the last year, we have renovated a grain shed into a clinic and employed the only allopathic doctor in a region of over 250,000 people. In this time, we have treated over 15,000 patients, established the only safe birthing center in the district, and deployed the first ultrasound in the [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 18th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru
One of Nyaya Health’s main objectives is to develop a model of evidence-based rural healthcare delivery. For a clinic providing free medicines, it is important to carefully define the scope of pharmaceuticals that are offered. This is necessary for efficient management of patients, but also because local community members, foreign [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 17th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru
Nyaya Health has recently updated our Budget page on our public-access wiki to provide our line-by-line budget that is accessible to all. This, we believe, is fundamental to our mission of creating testable, scaleable, and accountable models for the rapid scale-up of comprehensive health services in areas affected by poverty, isolation, [...]
Posted in News on Jun 16th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru
With the strong support of local community members and the ministry of health, Nyaya Health has begun preliminary planning for renovating and staffing a long-abandoned hospital complex near to our clinic. This is a long-term project requiring increasing our fundraising base, receiving all the necessary government approvals, improving upon our existing [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Jan 8th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru
People often ask us, why did we choose to work in Achham? The most proximal answer is the HIV epidemic. Achham has some of Nepal’s worst HIV rates and a health infrastructure woefully inadequate to meet the task. When Jason and Roshani first went out to Achham in February of 2006 to [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 21st, 2007
Posted by Duncan Maru
After a long process of being frustrated by government bureaucrats, it was refreshing to finally be able to start working with the local government officials with whom we would actually be working.
The district capital is in Mangalsen, which is situated only about 10km as the crow flies from Sanfe Bagar but [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff on Dec 21st, 2007
Posted by Duncan Maru
One of the most exciting happenings over the last two months has been the expansion of the Nyaya Health team, particularly our Achham-based crew. It is worth summarizing who some of the new players are. I will focus on the Nepal-based folks since they really are the heart-and-soul of the growing team.
Dr. [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 21st, 2007
Posted by Duncan Maru
The AMD/OAN award was a huge victory for our organization and was achieved largely because of Sanjay’s persistence with pursuing any potential grant opportunity that has come our way. The AMD/OAN for their part saw in Nyaya Health a young but innovative organization working in one of the more remote and poorest [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 21st, 2007
Posted by Duncan Maru
A brief history about the current Nyaya Health clinic. This history parallels the birth of our Achham program from a very loose concept of working with the government to improve health infrastructure in a district with high HIV and maternal mortality rates to a concrete plan of action.
Jason Andrews had originally convinced [...]