Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on Feb 24th, 2012
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari When Dhan Bahadur, our X-ray Technician, called us over and told us that our X-ray machine was broken, I was shocked. This was the WHIS-RAD, the extremely durable and safe machine promoted by the World Health Organization, for being perfect for resource-poor settings. It was supposed to last for many years, not [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Feb 20th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz Recently, thanks to the efforts of volunteers from around the world, donors, and our dedicated staff, several substantial technological improvements have been made at Bayalpata Hospital. In the past, we’ve struggled with the lack of consistent electricity, and consequently, have had to carefully ration our energy utilization. This has, of course, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Feb 17th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz After being absent from Bayalpata for nearly six months, I returned in late December with great excitement to see the many changes and steps forward that have transpired since I’ve been gone. And indeed, I have not been met with disappointment. While our staff had continued to work diligently, serving the [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Feb 15th, 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 Mortality Reviews, Patient Stories on Feb 13th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru Here is a man we can help. He’s a forty-two year old farmer and migrant worker to India who is extremely sick, but fixable. I first heard about him a few minutes ago from one of our superb Health Assistant, Chanakya, who found me while I was going through expired medicines [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 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 Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jan 27th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru We in the development, global health delivery, and social justice businesses seek to change current conditions that produce poverty, injustice, and ill-health. On the one hand, our vision is often ambitious and over-sized for our levels of experience both as practitioners and visitors in communities that can remain unfamiliar even after [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jan 7th, 2012
Posted by Richa Pokhrel If you asked an average mother how much they care for their children, I bet the answer would be a lot. It would be so much that there would be no number value for it. I ask this question because here in Achham we have come across some instances where human [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 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 News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 29th, 2011
Dear members of the Nyaya Health family, I am writing you today to tell you why we must forever change the way infectious diseases are diagnosed and treated in Far-Western Nepal through a new partnership with One Day’s Wages. That “why” for me was found in Maya, a patient at Bayalpata Hospital last October. Maya was like many [...]
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 24th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru “We’re just going for a walk down the hill.” As he passed by me, I saw a sense of pride and almost playfulness in the father’s eyes. He seemed to relish going for a walk with his daughter on a beautiful spring day in Achham. I had met his daughter, sixteen [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 23rd, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru We had engaging x-ray rounds today at Bayalpata Hospital. On rounds the day before, we had been frustrated by the inefficiency and low quality of reading x-rays at the patient’s bedside without a viewbox. Viewing x-rays at the bedside also did not afford us an opportunity to give meaningful feedback to [...]
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 [...]