Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 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
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 27th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A baby boy died at 36 hours of life. I had first heard about him back at the staff quarters at around midnight, when a seven month pregnant woman had just given birth in the bathroom. He was small, 1.5 kg. His heart rate was very slow, and we started bag-mask [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 25th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru There is a new HIV diagnosis in the outpatient department for a man whose wife is dead, an infant in respiratory distress in the emergency department, an inpatient unit whose patients seem to be bathing in flies. Another child in the emergency department fell on her elbow from a few feet [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 24th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru “We’re just going for a walk down the hill.” As he passed by me, I saw a sense of pride and almost playfulness in the father’s eyes. He seemed to relish going for a walk with his daughter on a beautiful spring day in Achham. I had met his daughter, sixteen [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 23rd, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 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
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 20th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru This week, a 70-year-old woman with emphysema and heart failure was admitted to Bayalpata Hospital with shortness of breath and limited ability to walk, likely related to heart failure. She had murmurs indicative of aortic and tricuspid valve insufficiency. Based on an echocardiogram (ultrasound) performed by our Health Assistant Uday Kshatriya [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 14th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru She arrived walking, her sandals dusty. Her small heart, failing her, literally bounding out of her chest, somehow carried her three hours from her village and up the mountain to our small hospital in remote Achham, Nepal. I first saw her after being called by Chanakya Timilsina, our Health Assistant, who [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Dec 12th, 2011
Posted by Tess Panizales Within the bosom of Nepal’s southwestern mountains, lies another life, challenged by its topography. A culture of its own, surviving, and living life the way it has existed and cherished, the way it has evolved and learned. Trodding through the rugged path, coddling the sick over one’s arms, or a [...]
Posted in News on Dec 10th, 2011
Dear friends and family, I am honored to share that last week Nyaya Health became part of the 1% of organizations examined by GiveWell to be distinguished as a standout organization. GiveWell, deemed “the gold standard for giving” by the Boston Globe, takes their evaluations seriously. In fact, only 6 of the 750 organizations examined this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 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
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 [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Nov 26th, 2011
The Management Center highlighted Nyaya Health and its core values in the recent edition of “The Management Fix.” Jerry Hauser , CEO of The Management Center, commends Nyaya’s core values of efficiency, results, and transparency, and references the introductory email sent to new Nyaya employees which features these values. The article is available here. Tweet This Post
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Nov 20th, 2011
Nyaya Health is honored to be a member of the Praxis Network, an organization dedicated to promoting the “rights to health, equity, and dignity for people living in poverty around the world.” Today we are proud to announce the release of the Praxis Network Concept Paper. Please read this document to learn about how Nyaya Health is [...]