Nyaya Health

Nyaya was recently invited to deliver one of the “Partnerships in Global Health Equity” workshops at the 2010 GlobeMed Summit in Chicago. GlobeMed is a network of university students which partner with grassroots organizations to improve the health of people of the impoverished. This year, their summit featured keynote addresses and workshops by several of [...]

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Nyaya’s work has been featured in an article and photo essay on the Harvard FXB Center’s Health and Human Rights Open Forum blog. Guest-writing for the blog, Dan Schwarz highlights the development of Nyaya’s work at Bayalpata Hospital, and documents many of the logistical challenges involved, in both narrative and photographs.
Read the narrative post and [...]

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Posted by Dan Schwarz
Nyaya has been awarded one of the first-round
UpToDate International Grant Subscriptions! UpToDate is an online clinical reference software, commonly used in many American teaching hospitals, but rarely accessible in the developing world. Through an exciting new granting program, UpToDate has teamed up with the Global Health Delivery Project to provide free subscriptions to [...]

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Posted by Astha Ramaiya
All countries have different structures of health care staff based based on their particular local government system. We understand that reading Nyaya blog entries which discuss the different staff at Bayalpata Hospital can be confusing for our readers. In this entry we hope to clarify the different roles and qualifications of staff [...]

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Posted by Chintan Maru
South Asia has no shortage of water stories.  A hydro-electric dam project diverts a sacred river and displaces millions.  The morning hustle at a slum’s communal tap breaks into a fatal fight.  A monsoon rain blesses an inter-caste wedding.  I began asking about Nyaya’s water story when I witnessed our night-watchman Kansa [...]

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Posted by Ryan Schwarz
The past year was one of great success, and inspiring challenges. We began 2009 in the Sanfe Bagar Primary Health Center, and in June, in partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population, moved our operations to The Bayalpata Hospital. It has been an exciting transition, and we are honored to [...]

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Posted by Chintan Maru
On Thursday, under a banyan tree that has sheltered generations, the village of Ridikot assembled to discuss its annual development goals. Dr. Jhapat Thapa, Nyaya’s Medical Director, was invited to sit with community leaders including representatives of the major political parties, Dalit and women’s rights groups, and the sole member of the [...]

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Posted by Ryan Schwarz
Nyaya Health is pleased to announce it has received an anonymous gift of $25,000 to purchase an X-ray machine for Bayalpata Hospital. Nyaya is honored to receive this gift and is excited to offer our patients better care through this program!
Currently, there is no X-ray machine in the area where Nyaya Health works. [...]

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Posted by Ranju Sharma
Nyaya volunteer Ranju Sharma recounts a day she spent in the summer of 2009 with two of Nyaya’s CHWs

Achham had recently had the first few rainfalls of this year’s monsoon when we went for a community visit with two of Nyaya Health Community Health Workers (CHWs). The day was not an ideal [...]

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Posted by Dan Schwarz
At this time of great crisis, Nyaya Health would like to express its solidarity with the people of Haiti, and the various NGOs and governments who are currently working in these crucial hours in the rescue and relief operations. We hope that our supporters will contribute to these efforts, either by making [...]

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Posted by Duncan Maru
Nyaya Health Blog was recently nominated for medgadget.com’s 2009 Best Medical Weblog competition.

To our writers and readers: thank you for your continued support and solidarity!  Please help support us by making sure to cast your comments about our blog prior to the January 24 deadline.

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Posted by Sushant Wagley
For Nyaya Health, a steady water supply is essential for delivering health care services at Bayalpata Hospital. Ridikot, the village development committee (VDC) where Bayalpata Hospital is located, is an especially dry VDC with limited water supply. Communities surrounding Bayalpata Hospital – and even most of the district of Achham – do [...]

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Posted by Ryan Schwarz
Dr. Prativa Pandey, Director of the CIWEC Clinic in Kathmandu, recently visited the Bayalpata Hospital and has since offered to support Nyaya Health with a large donation of hospital supplies and equipment, and further ongoing support through the CIWEC Clinic. We had the opportunity to ask her some questions about her [...]

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Posted by Dan Schwarz

“I have seven girls. I had one boy but he died when he was very young. I’ve been to Dhangadi two times before [for ultrasound diagnostics] but both times they were girls and I got rid of them.”
-Excerpted from Dr. Ruma Rajbhandari’s new article in The Nepali Times

In the United States, gender inequality [...]

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Posted by Piali Mukhopadhyay
2009 has been a critical year in the growth of Nyaya Health. Our mission to expand access to health care in the Achham district of rural Nepal was further realized with the opening of Bayalpata Hospital this past June. For the first time, the people of Achham have access to a properly [...]

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