A Week’s Work
Posted in A Week's Work on Oct 12th, 2012
This is Nyaya Health’s highlight of the week: 1. Data Highlight: Pediatrics Unit Tweet This Post
Tag Archive 'Far West'
Food Poisoning in Armed Police Force Camp
Posted in Patient Stories on Oct 11th, 2012
Posted by Bibhusan Basnet I was just starting to doze off when I got a call from the emergency department (ED). We had some police men in the ED who were seriously ill. They had continuous vomiting, several episodes of diarrhea, and a high grade fever. The police inspector who accompanied them told me further [...]
Combating Malnutrition in Achham
Posted in Narrating Nepal on Oct 10th, 2012
Posted by Bibhusan Basnet Community malnutrition screening and treatment has been one of our missions since the establishment of Nyaya Health. Malnutrition is present in 60% of children under the age of five in Achham, where we have our working base. It is a tragic reality, and our fight against malnutrition is underway. Bayalpata Hospital runs [...]
A Week’s Work
Posted in A Week's Work on Oct 5th, 2012
This is Nyaya Health’s highlight of the week: 1. Meet Bhinnata Piya, new Assistant to the Country Director Tweet This Post
How to Make Patients Happy
Posted in Narrating Nepal on Oct 3rd, 2012
Posted by Roshan Bista When I had headaches and some health problems during my childhood, my mother used to give me medicine to make me feel better. I thought medicine did the job, but I now realize it was my mother’s love that cured most of my illness. Now, as a medical doctor, I try [...]
Picture of the Week from Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Picture of the Week on Oct 2nd, 2012
Posted by Lindsey Youngquist _____________ Lindsey Youngquist is a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar studying Community Health in Nepal. She recently volunteered at Bayalpata Hospital in Achham. Tweet This Post
Just One Nepali Virus Away from Target Weight
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 19th, 2012
Posted by Jeffrey Kaplan As I sit in the airport on my way home, I can only reflect on how randomly fortunate those of us who just happened to hit the “lucky dog club” (being born in a 1st world country) are. Our personal commitment to sharing our fortune of high quality, readily available healthcare [...]
8 Year-old Boy Makes his Own Diagnosis
Posted in Patient Stories on Sep 13th, 2012
Posted by Roshan Bista [The following patient story was adapted from our medical@ listserv, which provides a forum for collaboration between medical professionals at Bayalpata Hospital and around the world.] An 8 year-old boy presented with periumbilical pain for 4 days, which was non-radiating, with multiple episodes of vomiting and the inability to pass stool and flatus [...]
Harvard University’s Global Health Delivery Partnership
Posted in Logistics and Management on Sep 8th, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz The vision that ultimately led to Nyaya’s founding began in 2006, when 3 students at Yale decided to work with the government to establish better healthcare in Achham, Nepal. Our team has largely been comprised of younger volunteers including students and young professionals. Initially we had little formal mentorship, were certainly [...]
Make $250,000 of Progress Possible
Posted in News on Sep 6th, 2012
Dear Blog Readers, Between now and September 19th, we have an extraordinary opportunity ahead of us. Nyaya Health has been nominated to win the $250,000 grand prize in the Chase Community Giving contest hosted on Facebook. If we together can bring the most votes, we will be able to expand our work to 5 clinics in 2013. [...]
Barriers to HIV Treatment in Achham
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Aug 31st, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz I recently had the opportunity to meet several Achhami women who were receiving services from a local non-profit organization with which Nyaya partners. All of the patients are HIV positive and receive support services at home through our partner organization. The organization provides much-needed assistance in a number of psycho-social domains [...]
Picture of the Week from Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 28th, 2012
Posted by Lindsey Youngquist _____________ Lindsey Youngquist is a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar studying Community Health in Nepal. She recently volunteered at Bayalpata Hospital in Achham. Tweet This Post
What if?
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Aug 26th, 2012
Posted by Laura Corlin The other night, a live baby girl was born. She wasn’t perfectly healthy; she needed oxygen. In the United States, otherwise healthy newborn babies receive oxygen all the time. It’s very easy to administer and relatively cheap. Even here, we have oxygen. But what we don’t have is consistent power, and [...]
Visceral Leishmaniasis at Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Patient Stories on Aug 24th, 2012
Posted by Bibhusan Basnet It was Friday, and as usual, we were having our grand rounds in the inpatient department. The patient from bed number 6 was a 9 year-old female child who had presented to the emergency department (ED) yesterday with fever for 4 weeks (recorded up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the ED), [...]
Picture of the Week from Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 21st, 2012
Posted by Lindsey Youngquist ———————- Lindsey Youngquist is a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar studying Community Health in Nepal. She recently volunteered at Bayalpata Hospital in Achham. Tweet This Post