Nyaya Health

Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari Throughout the world, mothers are strong; but mothers in Far-Western Nepal seem to be in another league all together. In 2007, while working with Nick Simons Institute of Rural Health Care Training (NSI), I traveled to Bajhang district, a harrowing journey from Kathmandu involving a one hour flight, a sixteen hour [...]

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Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD All too often in our work, we are confronted by deaths of young people that are devastating by their impact on families and communities and by the fact of their being so preventable.  The death of this young pregnant woman and her child, described below in the mortality report [...]

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