Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
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 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 Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Nov 13th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru [This poem was written by Duncan Maru, co-founder and President of Nyaya Health.] You have come to me for a busted toe, an accident, you say. Dressed in your loose black shirt with a large Christian cross on it, grey sagging sweat pants. Your face, round, youthful, inquisitive, impresses [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 30th, 2011
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari [Ruma Rajbhandari, of Nyaya Health, the Nick Simons Institute, and Partners In Health, recently presented at the 18th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium, held on September 24th, 2011 by Partners In Health. The theme of this year’s symposium was “From Innovation to Transformation: Partnerships in Action,” and Ruma shared her [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 19th, 2011
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Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
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, Social Justice and Health on Feb 12th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz I’ve written before on this blog about the importance of collaboration in the global health field and Nyaya’s efforts to join with partner organizations to work towards the development of best practices for the field. To further pursue this aspect of our work, Nyaya is a member organization of Still Harbor’s [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jan 17th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A 60 year old gentleman presented to Bayalpata Hospital today describing several months oflower back pain. A large proportion of adult patients who come to Bayalpata Hospital describe back pain. It is significantly challenging to determine which of these patients have a problem that is actually amenable to medical therapy. In [...]
Posted in News on Dec 17th, 2010
Dear friends and family, 2010 has been an extremely exciting year with enormous progress. Significant changes have taken place in Achham since 2008 when Nyaya saw its first patients’. Due to your constant support for health equity, over 50,000 patients have received free health care in one of the poorest regions of South Asia. We’ve [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Nov 1st, 2010
Posted by Bibhav Acharya In this photo essay, Bibhav Acharya, one of Nyaya’s Board members, captures some of the changes that Achham and Nyaya have seen in the last three years. THEN: Bayalpata Hospital was built in the 1980s by the Nepali Government. However, due to political pressure, all equipment was moved to another hospital [...]
Posted in News on Oct 28th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Nyaya Health and Partners in Health’s partner organization, Project Muso, forwarded the following request for a job opening. Project Muso has been doing tremendous work for health care equity in Mali since 2005. They are currently advertising for their first full-time Executive Director position and we are honored to spread the word [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Oct 4th, 2010
Posted by Jason Andrews and Astha Ramaiya Nepal was recently honored at The Millenium Development Goals (MDG) review summit for making significant progress in decreasing maternal mortality rates (MMR). According to government estimates, MMR has declined from 850 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to an estimated 229 per 100,000 live births in 2010 [1] . [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jun 26th, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz The Achham district, where Bayalpata Hospital is located, continues to suffer from severe energy shortages. As a result, periods of up to 18 hours of load-shedding–scheduled electricity outages– occur daily. In the face of these outages, the Nyaya Health team works to accommodate our high daily energy demands for medical services. Bayalpata Hospital currently [...]