Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on Feb 6th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru I interact with our patients briefly, in the context of a consultation by one of our clinical team members. For most of the patients with whom I consult, I will never know whether we had the right diagnosis or the right treatment. Without a clear mechanism for following up with our patients, I [...]
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya Health was started by a group of Yale students 6 years ago. It began when one of our founders, Jason Andrews, traveled to the Achham region and learned about the dearth of healthcare in the region, and the injustices faced daily by Achhami citizens. Over the last six years our [...]
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 23rd, 2012
Posted by Agya Poudyal Doctors in Achham are God. Ask the woman with a sick ten month old baby waiting outside the outpatient department (OPD) at Bayalpata Hospital and she will convince you that they are. As one of our doctors and his clinical staff walk the long path to the OPD, a horde of [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jan 20th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz This past week, Nyaya Health Nepal received a further allocation of 30lakh rupees (approximately $35,700 USD) from the Ministry of Health of Nepal. As part of Nyaya Health Nepal’s public private partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health to administer services at Bayalpata Hospital, the Ministry has made the strong commitment [...]
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 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 Logistics and Management on Dec 30th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our patients often walk or are carried several hours to receive care, and in evaluating such patients, our providers often order an x-ray. Our providers are highly skilled in x-ray diagnosis, but, unlike most doctors in the United States and other resource-rich areas, they do not have the benefit of having [...]
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 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 Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 27th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A baby boy died at 36 hours of life. I had first heard about him back at the staff quarters at around midnight, when a seven month pregnant woman had just given birth in the bathroom. He was small, 1.5 kg. His heart rate was very slow, and we started bag-mask [...]
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 [...]