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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 16th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru In September of 2011, Bayalpata Hospital in rural Achham, Nepal almost collapsed under the weight of its own staff discontent. The hospital, a government facility, had been largely abandoned until 2009 when our organization Nyaya Health endeavored to open it in partnership with local and national authorities. Since then the hospital [...]
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Posted in News on Dec 5th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our Country Director and I had the honor of visiting Dhulikhel Hospital this week to meet with staff members and Administrative Director, Dr. Rajendra Koju. Dhulikhel is a not-for-profit, non-governmental hospital that offers affordable prices to its patients and manifests a singular vision of high quality and equitable care in rural Nepal, representing much of [...]
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Posted by Agya Poudyal [Below is the Community Health Worker (CHW) update from Bayalpata Hospital for the month of Bhadra, as well as a story relating the experiences of CHWs in the field.] 1. Community Health Worker (CHW) Data for the Month of Bhadra: Three new categories have been introduced in this month’s table: [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 30th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our wonderful collaborator, Selwyn Rogers at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, and I presented our surgical implementation science protocol at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School recently. The slides for the talk are available here: We received some excellent and insightful feedback from a room full of about 25 [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management on Oct 26th, 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
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Posted by Gregory Karelas [Continued from Returning Home, posted September 26, 2011.] The bandh (strike) lifted at 4:30 p.m. As 5 p.m. rolled around, so did my car, heralding the smell of burning rubber in its wake. Yet it wasn’t until 5:03 p.m. that I realized it was a stack of flaming tires and not [...]
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Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
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Posted by Gregory Karelas [The following is a letter from Country Director Gregory Karelas, which he sent over our open-access Nyaya member listserve about some recent events in Achham.] Dear Nyaya staff, volunteers and supporters, I wish to share with you a story of perseverance in the face of discord and uncertainty. On September 9th, [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management on Oct 5th, 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
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 3rd, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz In September, an article was published in the well-respected journal Pediatrics entitled “Challenges in setting up pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in a resource-limited country” which detailed the planning, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of Patan Hospital’s neonatal and pediatric intensive care units (NICU and PICU). Patan Hospital is one of the leading [...]
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