Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Narrating Nepal on Oct 3rd, 2012
Posted by Roshan Bista When I had headaches and some health problems during my childhood, my mother used to give me medicine to make me feel better. I thought medicine did the job, but I now realize it was my mother’s love that cured most of my illness. Now, as a medical doctor, I try [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 19th, 2012
Posted by Jeffrey Kaplan As I sit in the airport on my way home, I can only reflect on how randomly fortunate those of us who just happened to hit the “lucky dog club” (being born in a 1st world country) are. Our personal commitment to sharing our fortune of high quality, readily available healthcare [...]
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 Social Justice and Health on Aug 28th, 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 Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Aug 26th, 2012
Posted by Laura Corlin The other night, a live baby girl was born. She wasn’t perfectly healthy; she needed oxygen. In the United States, otherwise healthy newborn babies receive oxygen all the time. It’s very easy to administer and relatively cheap. Even here, we have oxygen. But what we don’t have is consistent power, and [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Aug 24th, 2012
Posted by Bibhusan Basnet It was Friday, and as usual, we were having our grand rounds in the inpatient department. The patient from bed number 6 was a 9 year-old female child who had presented to the emergency department (ED) yesterday with fever for 4 weeks (recorded up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the ED), [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 18th, 2012
Posted by Roshan Bista My third day in the office at Bayalpata Hospital was a special day because it was the third anniversary of the hospital, as well as the inauguration of our new surgery block and microbiology lab at Bayalpata Hospital, Achham. It got even better when Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in Achham to [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 12th, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz When I’m not working for Nyaya, I spend my days working as a resident physician in Boston (United States). In the USA we attend medical school for 4 years, after a previous 4-year bachelor’s degree, and then complete our “residency training” in our specialty of choice – for example, general surgery, [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff on Aug 3rd, 2012
Posted by Bibhusan Basnet Raviman, Bayalpata Hospital’s Pharmacist, reminds me of one of Chad Kroeger’s songs: “and they say that a hero can save us.” He is the ultimate hero at Bayalpata Hospital (BH). Without him, the care and service we provide to the patients would be incomplete to say the least. He is always [...]
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 Patient Stories on Jul 27th, 2012
Posted by Gregory Karelas Almost one year ago, I wrote a piece for this blog titled “The Transformative Power of Paint”. Its purpose was to elucidate how small gestures can make great change. It was a pleasure to write and depicted beliefs that I still hold true. Thus, when the experience of touch emerged as a theme for [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Jul 20th, 2012
Posted by Ashma Baruwal It was Thursday and I had just returned from my day off (my “weekend” falls on a Wednesday). After attending the update meeting I headed back to my office, making mental notes of the things that needed to be done. The waiting area for the patients was not too crowded, which [...]
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 Social Justice and Health on Jul 10th, 2012
Posted by Ashma Baruwal ———– Ashma Baruwal is a MPH graduate from Chulalongkorn University,Thailand. She is currently the Associate Director of Community Health for Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
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 [...]