Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Mar 24th, 2012
Posted by Sheela Maru The sun penetrated deep into our chilled bodies as we talked on the lawn outside the delivery room of Bayalpata Hospital. We found our first study participant there, with her 6 hour old infant, basking in the hot, therapeutic rays. She answered our foreign questions meekly with a slightly confused look. We were probing [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Mar 1st, 2012
Posted by Gregory Karelas The patient was of a young woman who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with rectal bleeding for the third time this month. I watched our doctors go through preliminary check-ups and interventions with her at the end of the work day, and then left for my office, confident that all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 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 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 Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Nov 13th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru [This poem was written by Duncan Maru, co-founder and President of Nyaya Health.] You have come to me for a busted toe, an accident, you say. Dressed in your loose black shirt with a large Christian cross on it, grey sagging sweat pants. Your face, round, youthful, inquisitive, impresses [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 30th, 2011
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari [Ruma Rajbhandari, of Nyaya Health, the Nick Simons Institute, and Partners In Health, recently presented at the 18th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium, held on September 24th, 2011 by Partners In Health. The theme of this year’s symposium was “From Innovation to Transformation: Partnerships in Action,” and Ruma shared her [...]
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
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 27th, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Confidentiality and Hippocratic Oath state that a doctor should do no harm and keep all patient information a secret. This oath has been followed since the dawn of medicine. However, working in the field of reproductive health and infectious diseases, I regularly question if this law holds true when your disclosure [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jan 5th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews Recently released figures suggest that in the district of Achham, where Nyaya Health works, has among the highest prevalence of HIV infection in Nepal. A total of 1053 cases of HIV have been reported in the past six years, of which nearly two-thirds were diagnosed in women. Achham is home to [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 5th, 2010
Posted by Ranju Sharma My previous blog in this series gave an overview of the structure and the rationale behind our newly implemented community health program. Here is a bit more detailed description of the structure of the program. In the community, the government’s Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) work under the supervision of Bayalpata Hospital’s [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 1st, 2010
Posted by Jason Andrews The staff of Bayalpata Hospital and our community, led by Dr. Amir Bista and Megha Giri, celebrated World AIDS Day with a host of festivities. This included a dramatic enactment of the pathogenesis of HIV infection in which staff acted as the host, virus, CD4 count and opportunistic infection, as well [...]
Posted in News, Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Nov 29th, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in News on Oct 28th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Nyaya Health and Partners in Health’s partner organization, Project Muso, forwarded the following request for a job opening. Project Muso has been doing tremendous work for health care equity in Mali since 2005. They are currently advertising for their first full-time Executive Director position and we are honored to spread the word [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Aug 2nd, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Wendy Glauser, a journalist from Toronto, recently visited Nyaya’soperations in Achham and wrote about the Safe Motherhood Incentive Program and birthing practices in Nepal. You can read her piece in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which can be accessed here. Tweet This Post
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jul 13th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Bayalpata Hospital has recently been approved by the regional District Health Office to begin The Safe Motherhood Program, in which expectant mothers can be financially reimbursed for attending antenatal care (ANC) visits and delivering in the hospital. Given that Achham suffers from one of the highest maternal mortality rates in South [...]