Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Aug 31st, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz I recently had the opportunity to meet several Achhami women who were receiving services from a local non-profit organization with which Nyaya partners. All of the patients are HIV positive and receive support services at home through our partner organization. The organization provides much-needed assistance in a number of psycho-social domains [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Aug 10th, 2012
Posted by Roshan Bista When I was in medical school, my professors used to have medical rounds in the mornings and evenings. I was very happy to do rounds with them, and wished to do the same in the future. Despite the best efforts by our professors, however, the patients and patient parties were not [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jul 31st, 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 Social Justice and Health on Jul 13th, 2012
Posted by Gregory Karelas This morning, our nursing staff greeted me with a phrase that has become too common at Bayalpata Hospital: “Gregory. We have no pani.” Translation: “Water is out again. We don’t know what to do.” As mentioned in previous stories and updates, water is a delicate and ever-unreliable commodity here at Bayalpata [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jul 7th, 2012
Posted by Jesse Brady and Bibhusan Basnet In the past 8 months, the month of May recorded the highest number of bandhs (strikes) due to an extension of time allotted for drafting the national constitution. Many parts of the country have been reeling from the almost daily bandhs during the past few weeks, which have created a [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jul 1st, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru I wrote the following email last August to our Country Director, Gregory Karelas, and Executive Director, Mark Arnoldy, who had both recently taken the helm of Nyaya Health. It was at a challenging moment of transition, and one that brought much frustration and self-doubt. I asked Greg and Mark that I [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Jun 7th, 2012
Posted by Chhitij Bashyal With my old laptop and hefty community health worker (CHW) log books, I still remember basking in the sun on our Sanfe Clinic roof back in 2008. While digging through the weekly reports of our community health workers, even the thought of refining data collection and analysis process so to inform [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jun 3rd, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz This past week, Nyaya had the opportunity to attend Partners In Health’s (PIH) first annual Community Health Worker (CHW) Summit in Boston. More than 30 CHW program leaders from more than 20 countries/programs attended, including representatives from Tiyatien Health (Liberia), Project Muso (Mali), Zanmi Lasante (Haiti), Inshuti Mu Buzima (Rwanda), Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (Malawi), Companeros de Salud (Mexico), Socios en Salud (Peru), [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 15th, 2012
Posted by Mark Arnoldy ————- Mark Arnoldy is the Executive Director of Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 11th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru I recently unearthed the following short piece, which I had written in the wake of residency work hours changes over the last two years and ultimately never published. The work hours changes had tightened regulations on how long physicians-in-training could legally work in hospitals in the United States. I turned back [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 8th, 2012
Posted by Mark Arnoldy ————- Mark Arnoldy is the Executive Director of Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 27th, 2012
Posted by Duncan Maru This Easter Sunday, I sat with my family at The Paulist Center in Boston, my mother’s Catholic Church. The pastor in his sermon told the story of Bishop Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran Bishop, who spoke out against his militant government’s violence, and whose visionary voice was silenced when he was assassinated [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff on Apr 24th, 2012
Posted by Mark Arnoldy ————- Mark Arnoldy is the Executive Director of Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management on Apr 14th, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz When I first joined the Nyaya family in late 2008, our annual revenue was $76,631. After all calculations were tallied earlier this year, our annual revenue for 2011 turned out to be $552,333 — quite the jump. But what was even more obvious than our growth thus far, was still how [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff on Mar 26th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz In line with Nyaya’s vision of being a leader in data-driven and transparent operations, we have recently been working to develop a more formal research and evaluation strategy for our work in Achham. To that end, we have formalized several new volunteer and full-time positions, and have recently posted a new [...]