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/2012/01/14/misplaced_fluid_missed_oppor_to_care/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/14/misplaced_fluid_missed_oppor_to_care/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:00:19 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=4090 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2012/01/14/misplaced_fluid_missed_oppor_to_care/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru In Boston, I often see patients bounced around from one hospital or specialist to another.  It is a bit surprising to see this happen here in Achham, where the main challenge is a dearth of clinicians and hospitals, rather than an excess of them.  A sixty year old woman had been [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/11/04/radiologyarticlegh/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/11/04/radiologyarticlegh/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:00:03 +0000 Nyaya Health http://blog.nyayahealth.org/?p=2122 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2010/11/04/radiologyarticlegh/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2008/09/30/ultrasound-program-launched/ http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2008/09/30/ultrasound-program-launched/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:20:11 +0000 Nyaya Health http://nyayahealth.wordpress.com/?p=188 http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2008/09/30/ultrasound-program-launched/feed/ 0 Posted by Duncan Maru We have released our ultrasound rollout report (click to download) detailing the first month of our ultrasound program.  Diagnostic imaging is largely unavailable to rural, impoverished communities throughout the world. In the area where Nyaya Health works in the district of Achham in western Nepal, there is no ultrasound capacity for [...]