Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 9th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas [The following is a letter from Country Director Gregory Karelas, which he sent over our open-access Nyaya member listserve about some recent events in Achham.] Dear Nyaya staff, volunteers and supporters, I wish to share with you a story of perseverance in the face of discord and uncertainty. On September 9th, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Oct 5th, 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 Social Justice and Health on Oct 3rd, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz In September, an article was published in the well-respected journal Pediatrics entitled “Challenges in setting up pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in a resource-limited country” which detailed the planning, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of Patan Hospital’s neonatal and pediatric intensive care units (NICU and PICU). Patan Hospital is one of the leading [...]
Posted in Mortality Reviews, News, Social Justice and Health on Oct 1st, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Over the last two years Nyaya has spearheaded a Morbidity and Mortality Conference (M&M), which aims to provide a venue for Bayalpata Hospital’s clinical staff to critically reflect on and evaluate serious illnesses and deaths that occur. The effort is aimed at improving the quality of the care we offer, particularly [...]
Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz On April 1st, The Nick Simons Foundation generously donated $25,000 to Nyaya and offered an additional matching donation of $75,000 more – the total donation, if Nyaya was able to raise $75,000 ourselves, would equal $175,000! I write today to announce that with your support Nyaya has not only reached that [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 13th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Please consider the following definition. Transformation: “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.” (OED 2011, online) Now please look at the photos below. One is what one Bayalpata staff bathroom once looked like. One is what it now looks like. One is what a Bayalpata patient bed once looked [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on May 10th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma When a TB patient under DOTS at Bayalpata Hospital missed to come to the hospital, Dr. Bikash who is looking over the case went to the patient’s house 30 minutes ride from the hospital. The patient hadn’t been able to come to the hospital the day before because he was bedridden [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Apr 22nd, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Formerly a grain shed, the Sanfe Bagar Health Center (Sanfe Clinic) is the most beautiful health facility in Achham today. It sits above the bazaar in beautiful Sanfe Valley, amidst fields of yellow flowers and a 360 degree view of some of the striking scenery I’ve ever seen. In 2006, Nyaya [...]
Posted in Patient Stories on Mar 3rd, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Note: The following post has graphic content The call came into Dilidai, our ambulance driver. A man from a village about six hours away had been bitten by a bear while collecting wood. Members of his village had carried down to Sanfebagar, where he was now awaiting the ambulance. His leg [...]
Posted in News, Patient Stories on Jan 24th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A brave little four-year-old girl with a pink hairband twisted on the crown of her head, pink and purple polka-dotted shirt, and purple socks is sitting in the procedure room. She had fallen earlier that day while playing and hurt her right arm. She has a small abrasion over her cheek [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jan 12th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz, presented at the weekly Brown University Infectious Disease Rounds, discussing our HIV/AIDS management program in Achham. His talk was entitled “Meeting the need: Developing an HIV/AIDS treatment program in the Far West Region, Nepal.” You can view his slides here: ——————- Dan Schwarz is the Executive Director [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 24th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru Nyaya Health Co-Founder Duncan Maru, MD, PHD recently discussed Nyaya Health’s work in his talk on “Implementation Gaps and Quality Chasms: Building Health Systems in Rural Nepal” at the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Noon Conference at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is a resident physician. His slide show is available [...]
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, Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Nov 29th, 2010
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Bikash Gauchan and Dr. Amir Bista, Nyaya’s two physicians, were running out of options for a very sick 17 year old girl from a remote village in Achham. She had been to several hospitals in the region and had conflicting lab results and no clear diagnosis. Despite our best efforts, [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Nov 10th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Yesterday at Bayalpata Hospital it was a 7 year old boy who’d fallen and likely broken his arm. Last week it was a 34 year old HIV positive patient who had a cough suspicious of tuberculosis. Both of these patients needed an x-ray to properly diagnose their medical conditions. While over [...]