Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News on Jun 4th, 2008
Posted by Duncan Maru Today the Open Architecture Network announced that Max Max Fordham, LLP (Gwilym Still, David Hawkins, Bertie Dixon and Thomas Bailess) and Nick Lawrence are the winning designers of the recent competition. Together with colleagues from OAN and other experts, we had selected their design out of 103 entries as the most [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management on Apr 21st, 2008
Posted by Tenzing Tekan 6:30am Wake up at sunrise. Carry water to the house from the spring and get washed and cleaned. While I am washing, the night watchman brings a paper with a question from the overnight shift Assistant Nurse-Midwife regarding a dehydrated infant. Since it is a simple intervention, I write a reply [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 15th, 2008
Posted by Tenzing Tekan Having lived most of my life in South Asia and seeing desperately poor people all the time, I thought I understood what it meant to be poor. But being from a middle class family in Kathmandu, my understanding of the poor is not fundamentally different from that of the average person [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 8th, 2008
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Chris, Mahendra, Bikram and I hiked up to Prabha to have conversations with folks who live there about their access to healthcare and about Nyaya’s clinic, which was opening soon. As we watched, listened and spoke, we learned a little more about suffering, health, nyaya (Nepali word for justice), and we [...]