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.
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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 to [...]
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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 staff [...]
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Posted by Chintan Maru
On Thursday, under a banyan tree that has sheltered generations, the village of Ridikot assembled to discuss its annual development goals. Dr. Jhapat Thapa, Nyaya’s Medical Director, was invited to sit with community leaders including representatives of the major political parties, Dalit and women’s rights groups, and the sole member of the [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jan 25th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz
Nyaya Health is pleased to announce it has received an anonymous gift of $25,000 to purchase an X-ray machine for Bayalpata Hospital. Nyaya is honored to receive this gift and is excited to offer our patients better care through this program!
Currently, there is no X-ray machine in the area where Nyaya Health works. [...]
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Posted by Ranju Sharma
Nyaya volunteer Ranju Sharma recounts a day she spent in the summer of 2009 with two of Nyaya’s CHWs
Achham had recently had the first few rainfalls of this year’s monsoon when we went for a community visit with two of Nyaya Health Community Health Workers (CHWs). The day was not an ideal [...]
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Posted by Sushant Wagley
As a Nyaya volunteer, my recent travel to Bayalpata Hosptial was delayed by a week due to national and regional strikes called by the various political parties. The political situation in Nepal is in constant flux, and these strikes – typically in the form of road blockades and business closures, and more [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Dec 22nd, 2009
Posted by Ryan Schwarz
Dr. Prativa Pandey, Director of the CIWEC Clinic in Kathmandu, recently visited the Bayalpata Hospital and has since offered to support Nyaya Health with a large donation of hospital supplies and equipment, and further ongoing support through the CIWEC Clinic. We had the opportunity to ask her some questions about her [...]
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Posted by Dan Schwarz
“I have seven girls. I had one boy but he died when he was very young. I’ve been to Dhangadi two times before [for ultrasound diagnostics] but both times they were girls and I got rid of them.”
-Excerpted from Dr. Ruma Rajbhandari’s new article in The Nepali Times
In the United States, gender inequality [...]
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Posted in News on Dec 5th, 2009
Posted by Piali Mukhopadhyay
2009 has been a critical year in the growth of Nyaya Health. Our mission to expand access to health care in the Achham district of rural Nepal was further realized with the opening of Bayalpata Hospital this past June. For the first time, the people of Achham have access to a properly [...]
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Posted by Ryan Schwarz
Nyaya uses multiple “Web 2.0″ tools to facilitate our work in rural Nepal. Due to the challenges of rural healthcare delivery, most notably the lack of consistent power, using web-based technologies has greatly enhanced Nyaya’s ability to continue its work. In this week’s issue of the well-regarded medical science journal PLoS Medicine, [...]
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Posted by Sushant Wagley, following conversations with Ruma Rajbhandari
Delivery of quality healthcare requires providers to maintain and develop knowledge and skills in clinical practice and performance. Continuing Medical Education (CME) allows medical providers to maintain the knowledge and skills acquired during primary training, while also allowing for the adoption of latest advancements and improvements into [...]
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Posted by Dan Schwarz, following conversations with Ruma Rajbhandari
In a blog post last month (“Severe Storms in Achham”), we related the story of a two year old girl who had suffered a traumatic head injury after falling from a height of one storey. At the time, we were happy to report that, despite an initially [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management 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 [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Oct 12th, 2009
Posted by Dan Schwarz, following conversation with Ruma Rajbhandari
Over the past two weeks, communication with the Nyaya Health staff in Achham has been very difficult due to the severe storms occurring throughout the region. One week ago, the Bayalpata Hospital satellite dish was struck by lightning, effectively cutting off all outside communication. Since then, it [...]
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