Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz In celebration of its first year of services, Bayalpata celebrated its first anniversary over the weekend with the whole community. This day, meant to symbolize not only successes thus far, but more importantly, the growth still to come in the future, was marked by the planting of over 100 trees, shrubs, [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Sep 1st, 2009
Posted by Bibhav Acharya One of Nyaya Health’s board members, Bibhav Acharya, reflects on a patient’s story from the summer of 2008. She went into cardiac arrest as she was carried into the clinic. The men carrying her said she had been bitten by a snake. We put everything on hold and rushed to assist [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 15th, 2008
Posted by Tenzing Tekan Having lived most of my life in South Asia and seeing desperately poor people all the time, I thought I understood what it meant to be poor. But being from a middle class family in Kathmandu, my understanding of the poor is not fundamentally different from that of the average person [...]