Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 9th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews Once every five years, a trove of data on the state of Nepal’s population health is released, often to very little fanfare. Each of the national dailies picks a key statistic or two to point out whether the country is ahead or behind target on a select Millennium Development Goal. For [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on May 6th, 2011
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari Throughout the world, mothers are strong; but mothers in Far-Western Nepal seem to be in another league all together. In 2007, while working with Nick Simons Institute of Rural Health Care Training (NSI), I traveled to Bajhang district, a harrowing journey from Kathmandu involving a one hour flight, a sixteen hour [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Mar 20th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz In July of 2010, Bayalpata Hospital began it’s Safe Motherhood Program in partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population, and has subsequently seen a substantial rise in in-hospital deliveries (red data points indicate months after the initiation of the SMP). This is only a fraction of the deliveries that [...]
Posted in Mortality Reviews, Patient Stories on Jun 7th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD All too often in our work, we are confronted by deaths of young people that are devastating by their impact on families and communities and by the fact of their being so preventable. The death of this young pregnant woman and her child, described below in the mortality report [...]