Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Clinic Staff on Feb 1st, 2012
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
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2012
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
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Dec 31st, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 29th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 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 Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Dec 23rd, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 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 Dec 20th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Social Justice and Health on Dec 18th, 2011
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, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 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 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 Social Justice and Health on Dec 3rd, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Nov 30th, 2011
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
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Nov 9th, 2011
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
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management, Reports, Social Justice and Health on Nov 6th, 2011
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: [...]