Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Reports on May 13th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya The second east-to-west highway is currently being constructed in Nepal, with an estimated completion date of sometime in the next year. The 1700 km road is a central hill highway, and only the second highway to cross the country. The road starts at Chiyo in Panchthar, and links Kathmandu, Pokhara, Rukum, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Mortality Reviews, News on May 8th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Dr. Duncan Maru, MD, PHD, a co-founder of Nyaya Health, has received the Dr. Frederick Lovejoy Research and Education Award from Children’s Hospital of Boston. This award will support the mortality and morbidity review program that Nyaya has been piloting at Bayalpata Hospital as one prong of Nyaya’s broader transparency and [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Reports on May 3rd, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya presented on their work at the 7th World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C. earlier this month. The poster presentation – “Transparent operations to enhance accountability and collaboration within global health” – discussed Nyaya’s work to develop a transparent organizational model. You can read more about the WHCC Affordable Health [...]
Posted in Reports, Social Justice and Health on Apr 28th, 2010
This is the first in a series of guest contributions by authors working for health justice in South Asia. We are pleased to support their work, and encourage our readers to think critically about the connection between our work and theirs. April marks Nyaya’s second birthday working as an advocate for health justice for the [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 21st, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz In 2009 the Indian Embassy to Nepal generously donated an ambulance to Nyaya Health. Nyaya’s ambulance program serves two primary objectives: Patient transfers – for those patients too ill to be treated at Bayalpata Hospital, the ambulance can provide transfer to other regional hospitals better equipped to provide care Personnel transfer [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health, Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2010
Nyaya was invited to present its work as a part of the Harvard University South Asian Public Health Meeting. The meeting, held over two days at the School of Public Health (Boston, USA), included speakers from various institutions and countries, discussing issues of healthcare delivery in South Asia. Dan Schwarz presented on behalf of Nyaya, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Apr 8th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya One of the most entrenched forms of gender inequality in Achham is that of illiteracy. The literacy rate amongst young girls aged six to fifteen is only 16% compared to 54% among boys of the same age group. Adult literacy among women in Achham is an appalling 7% compared to 48% [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, staff profiles on Apr 1st, 2010
Posted by Chintan Maru In the past month, two of our most dedicated team members left Achham. We are fortunate that Shefali Oza and Jhapat Thapa will continue to serve as active members of Nyaya Health’s Board of Directors. Jhapat Thapa, MBBS served as Nyaya’s first Medical Director for two years. The staff revered him [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Mar 31st, 2010
Posted by Jen Garnett At Nyaya, we strive to maintain a high level of financial and operational transparency. This allows us to rigorously monitor and evaluate our operational costs, and also provides our donors with detailed information on the social return on their investment and full disclosure of how their funds are being spent. Additionally, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Patient Stories on Mar 21st, 2010
Posted by Dr. Susan Warren “Bayalpata drowns in the tears of its women.” – unknown Achhami poet, quoted by clinician “A woman might get married at age 12. She gets pregnant right away and hopes for a son. The women work hard and the husband is away most of the time for jobs. He spends [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Mar 7th, 2010
Nyaya was recently invited to deliver one of the “Partnerships in Global Health Equity” workshops at the 2010 GlobeMed Summit in Chicago. GlobeMed is a network of university students which partner with grassroots organizations to improve the health of people of the impoverished. This year, their summit featured keynote addresses and workshops by several of [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Mar 6th, 2010
Nyaya’s work has been featured in an article and photo essay on the Harvard FXB Center’s Health and Human Rights Open Forum blog. Guest-writing for the blog, Dan Schwarz highlights the development of Nyaya’s work at Bayalpata Hospital, and documents many of the logistical challenges involved, in both narrative and photographs. Read the narrative post [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Mar 1st, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya has been awarded one of the first-round UpToDate International Grant Subscriptions! UpToDate is an online clinical reference software, commonly used in many American teaching hospitals, but rarely accessible in the developing world. Through an exciting new granting program, UpToDate has teamed up with the Global Health Delivery Project to provide free subscriptions [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, staff profiles on Feb 19th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya All countries have different structures of health care staff based based on their particular local government system. We understand that reading Nyaya blog entries which discuss the different staff at Bayalpata Hospital can be confusing for our readers. In this entry we hope to clarify the different roles and qualifications of [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Feb 14th, 2010
Posted by Chintan Maru South Asia has no shortage of water stories. A hydro-electric dam project diverts a sacred river and displaces millions. The morning hustle at a slum’s communal tap breaks into a fatal fight. A monsoon rain blesses an inter-caste wedding. I began asking about Nyaya’s water story when I witnessed our night-watchman [...]