Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Feb 1st, 2011
Dear friends and family, Today we share with you our 2010 Annual Report – we hope you’ll take a moment to read about the wonderful progress Nyaya and our partners have made this year in Achham, in the rural and impoverished west of Nepal. Nyaya began five years ago, compelled by the simple idea that [...]
Posted in News on Jan 27th, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya In October Nyaya’s Wiki was selected as one of the Featured Projects for the FACT Social Justice Challenge. Recently, NetSquared, the sponsor of the Challenge interviewed Nyaya’s Director of Operations to learn more about Nyaya’s work in the global health delivery field. You can read his interview here. Tweet This Post
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2011
posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya expresses its condolences and well wishes to the family of Thomas White, advisor and long-time member of Partners In Health, who passed away peacefully this morning. Thomas was an inspiring force to many in the global health field and the Nyaya team, and while he will be deeply missed, the [...]
Posted in News on Dec 23rd, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz As a part of its annual holiday campaign website The Daily Grommet supported Nyaya yesterday. The Daily Grommet features different products each day but during the Christmas season features organizations like Nyaya instead, asking its supporters to support these organizations instead of buying something else that day. Nyaya is deeply appreciative [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Dec 13th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Founder of Nyaya partner organization Tiyatien Health (TH), Raj Panjabi, recently presented TH’s work at the Pop!Tech conference. You can learn more about TH’s work in Liberia and their inspiring community health worker model here: Raj Panjabi: Post-Conflict Health from PopTech on Vimeo. ——————- Ryan Schwarz is the Director of Operations of Nyaya [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 9th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz As I’ve written about before on this blog, many of the challenges Nyaya faces in delivering health services are outside of the clinical realm. Many of these challenges revolve around management and administration, yet we often hear skepticism about the importance of managers, what they offer organizations, or that enhanced management [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Nov 27th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz I recently had the privilege of chatting with close friend and colleague Ari Johnson of Project Muso. He had just returned from Mali where his team works with a similar mission and objectives to Nyaya and other rights-based organizations. We talked of our challenges in developing health care with a “preferential [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management on Nov 23rd, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz As Nyaya’s Director of Operations I’m asked regularly how I, or any of Nyaya’s other volunteers not in Nepal, can help to expand access to health care services without actually being in Nepal. And as a medical student my colleagues often presume that my work with Nyaya is caring for patients. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in News on Nov 4th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Nyaya Health’s team recently published “Turning a blind eye: The mobilization of radiology services in resource-poor regions“ in the journal Globalization and Health. The article discusses the scarce access and usage of diagnostic imaging in resource-poor settings, and outlines a need to scale up both the ultrasound and X – ray [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Oct 31st, 2010
Posted by Sushant Wagley Over the past one and a half years, Bayalpata Hospital has been transformed into a 15-bed hospital with inpatient and outpatient wards, 24-hour emergency, obstetric and laboratory services, and a full pharmacy. In the coming year, Bayalpata will also undergo construction to open a surgical ward, eliminating the need to travel [...]
Posted in News on Oct 11th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya has entered the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge, an online competition promoting innovative uses of technology for social justice work.Nyaya’s proposal describes how we’ve used our wiki website to enhance transparency and opportunities for collaboration in the global health field. The FACT Challenge is a community-driven contest. What’s that mean? Itmeans WE [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Aug 15th, 2010
Posted by Astha Ramaiya Nyaya Co-Founder Jason Andrews, MD and Nyaya Director of Operations, Ryan Schwarz, were recently interviewed by Partners in Health. Here they discuss Nyaya’s history and our vision for the future. We would like to express our gratitude to Partners in Health for continually supporting our mission: Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Aug 6th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Recently, Nyaya’s staff at Bayalpata Hospital received a 7 year-old boy who had fallen and sustained significant head injuries. There was concern that he had fractured his skull and had increased pressure inside his skull cavity – a life-threatening condition. He was immediately transferred to Seti Zonal Hospital in Nyaya’s ambulance [...]
Posted in News on Jul 12th, 2010
Dear friends, One year ago, Nyaya joined with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population to open the Bayalpata Hospital and enhance health services to the Achham region. It’s been a humbling and amazing year, and we’ve had many successes. Many of these have been written about on our blog, and in and in commemoration [...]