Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Jul 8th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Recently, a 17 year old man fell about 10 meters from a tree, sustaining fatal injuries. After three hours in transit, he was brought almost certainly dead on arrival by our ambulance. Our medical team performed basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation on this gentleman, though we were sadly unable to bring him back [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Feb 19th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Note: Please be advised of potentially graphic medical content. The delivery room at Bayalpata Hospital was dimly lit. The walls, a pale yellow; the floor, the kind of brown cement that, though freshly cleaned by our health aide Chandrika didi, could never look clean. On the delivery table was a blue [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Mortality Reviews on Oct 29th, 2009
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD Nyaya Health is undertaking an innovative experiment in operations management by reviewing all deaths that occur at the Bayalpata hospital and identifying systems-level changes to prevent future deaths. Programs aimed at assessing the root causes of deaths can help to assess effectiveness and can identify programmatic weaknesses. Implementing such [...]