Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
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
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jun 20th, 2012
Posted by Jason Andrews and Sanjay Basu For the last several years, we’ve heard that privatizing public health systems in poor countries would be the best way to build more sustainable, efficient and effective healthcare systems. Large multinational firms and the World Bank have put out several reports advocating for the poorest countries to privatize. [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Social Justice and Health on Jun 1st, 2012
Posted by Bibhusan Basnet It was Saturday morning and, as planned with Agya and Ashma, we set out for the meeting with the Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) in our catchment Village Development Committee (VDC), Janalikot. We planned to give a dental hygiene orientation program for the FCHVs and I was excited. We printed materials [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Feb 5th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru A middle-aged woman presented with abdominal pain, bloating, and vaginal bleeding. A few years ago, she had had some gynecologic surgery in India where her son was working. They had no records of the procedure, nor did they know of what precisely the surgery had entailed. She had suffered no fever or weight loss. Our [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Jan 14th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru In Boston, I often see patients bounced around from one hospital or specialist to another. It is a bit surprising to see this happen here in Achham, where the main challenge is a dearth of clinicians and hospitals, rather than an excess of them. A sixty year old woman had been [...]
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 Social Justice and Health on Aug 30th, 2011
Posted by Pritam Shah I vividly remember the days when I used to walk past Bayalpata Hospital with wild bushes, ruined old buildings, and a herd of grazing cattle. I now contemplate on those memories when I recently visited Bayalpata Hospital. The hospital has transformed into a fully running hospital with landscaped grounds, painted buildings [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 25th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru “Duita bihana ma, Duita sanjh ko, la”. In counseling patients on how to take their medicines, the Bayalpata Hospital pharmacist Raviman Kunwar has the cadence of a Kathmandu micro-bus helper calling out to passengers to get on board, or an auctioneer selling his wares. At twenty-one years old, complete with stylish [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Jan 31st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Each week, over the Nyaya Health team list, we send out an update from the happenings of Bayalpata Hospital. Our Executive Director Dan Schwarz gave me the distinct honor of producing the report this week. We do not often publish our weekly updates on the blog, but we like to occasionally [...]
Posted in News on Jan 19th, 2011
Nyaya’s close friend and supporter, Dr. Marit Bakke, has written an article about her recent visit to Bayalpata Hospital, which has been been published in the Norway Nepal Association’s monthly newsletter, Hamro Patrika. Dr. Bakke is a Sociology professor from Oslo, Norway, and also sits on the International Advisory Board of Patan Academy of Health Sciences, [...]