Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management, Patient Stories on Mar 4th, 2012
Posted by Aarti Bhatt [The following is an example of Nyaya’s teamwork approach to providing the best care to patients. These case studies were discussed via our international listserv, to provide a spectrum of professional input.] Case 1: A 38 year old female with four days of fever, cough, and epigastric discomfort. Hemoglobin on admission [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Feb 24th, 2012
Posted by Ruma Rajbhandari When Dhan Bahadur, our X-ray Technician, called us over and told us that our X-ray machine was broken, I was shocked. This was the WHIS-RAD, the extremely durable and safe machine promoted by the World Health Organization, for being perfect for resource-poor settings. It was supposed to last for many years, not [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Mar 7th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Before beginning our conversation, Deelip Saund showed me a brief video clip of one of many interviews that he had collected from his patients at Bayalpata Hospital. Many of them had never had an x-ray before. He said that their conditions and experience taught him more about his work. Yet he [...]
Posted in News, Patient Stories on Jan 24th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A brave little four-year-old girl with a pink hairband twisted on the crown of her head, pink and purple polka-dotted shirt, and purple socks is sitting in the procedure room. She had fallen earlier that day while playing and hurt her right arm. She has a small abrasion over her cheek [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jan 17th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A 60 year old gentleman presented to Bayalpata Hospital today describing several months oflower back pain. A large proportion of adult patients who come to Bayalpata Hospital describe back pain. It is significantly challenging to determine which of these patients have a problem that is actually amenable to medical therapy. In [...]
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 [...]