http://blog.nyayahealth.org Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/01/picofwk37/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/01/picofwk37/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:00:44 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4138 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/02/01/picofwk37/feed/ 0 Posted by Richa Pokhrel  ————————– Richa was born in Nepal but grew up in Iowa.  She is currently the Director of Evaluation and Research at Nyaya Health.  Richa has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/18/picofwk35/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/18/picofwk35/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:00:56 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4129 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/18/picofwk35/feed/ 0 Posted by Tess Panizales ————- Tess Panizales is the Quality Program Manager of the Department of Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/31/psgn/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/31/psgn/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:32 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3975 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/31/psgn/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru A five-year-old boy presented with five days of dark-colored urine, swelling around his eyelids, and a recent rash over his left lower leg that itself had started over three weeks ago.  He lived relatively closer than many patients, a one and a half hour walk from Bayalpata.  He was brought in [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/29/onedaywages/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/29/onedaywages/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:00:28 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4172 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/29/onedaywages/feed/ 0 Dear members of the Nyaya Health family, I am writing you today to tell you why we must forever change the way infectious diseases are diagnosed and treated in Far-Western Nepal through a new partnership with One Day’s Wages. That “why” for me was found in Maya, a patient at Bayalpata Hospital last October. Maya was like many [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/28/picofwk32/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/28/picofwk32/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:00:26 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3941 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/28/picofwk32/feed/ 1 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/23/radiologyrounds/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/23/radiologyrounds/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:00:03 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3969 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/23/radiologyrounds/feed/ 0  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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/21/picofweek31/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/21/picofweek31/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:04 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3935 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/21/picofweek31/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/20/failinghearts/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/20/failinghearts/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:00:50 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3987 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/20/failinghearts/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/18/transformationschallenges/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/18/transformationschallenges/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:00:43 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3966 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/18/transformationschallenges/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru As I wrote in a recent tumblr post, it was wonderful to walk again through the halls of Bayalpata and to witness its continued transformation into a dignified hospital.  Over the course of ten months since my last trip, nearly every part of the hospital has been better organized and cleaned, [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/15/picofwk30/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/15/picofwk30/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:00:57 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3929 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/15/picofwk30/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:45 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3923 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/07/picofwk29/feed/ 0 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 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/03/chwimprovtaskforce/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/03/chwimprovtaskforce/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:00:21 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3845 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/03/chwimprovtaskforce/feed/ 0 Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s community health worker (CHW) program has grown extensively in its first 18 months. Covering an area of more than 20,000 people, throughout six of the area’s villages, Nyaya is now working with nearly 100 CHWs, who are all locally-employed women from the villages that they serve. Recently, Nyaya has been [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/30/picofwk25-2/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/30/picofwk25-2/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:00:11 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3838 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/30/picofwk25-2/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya ——————– Astha Ramaiya is the Blog Manager for Nyaya Health and a student pursuing her MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/09/picofwk25/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/09/picofwk25/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:00:38 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3822 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/09/picofwk25/feed/ 0 Posted by Astha Ramaiya ——————– Astha Ramaiya is the Blog Manager for Nyaya Health and a student pursuing her MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tweet This Post http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:27 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=3744 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/11/06/chwupdate/feed/ 0 Posted by Agya Poudyal   [Below is  the Community Health Worker (CHW) update from Bayalpata Hospital for the month of Bhadra, as well as a story relating the experiences of CHWs in the field.]   1. Community Health Worker (CHW) Data for the Month of Bhadra: Three new categories have been introduced in this month’s table: [...]