Posted by Shefali Oza
Nyaya Health has posted its update for May through August of this year. In this update, we document our opening of Bayalpata Hospital in collaboration with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population and provide up-to-date statistics of our first 2 months of hospital operation. We discuss some serious challenges we [...]
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Nyaya Health releases its May to August 2009 update
Posted in News on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Staff profile – Dhan Bahadur Bogati, Cook
Posted in News on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Sushant Wagley
* Note: This is the fourth in a series of Nyaya Health staff member profiles. Through these profiles, which are posted on Saturdays, we hope to give you a better idea of the people who are working on the ground to implement Nyaya’s vision on a daily basis.
Dhan Bahadur was born and [...]
Update on diarrheal epidemic
Posted in News on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
The diarrhea epidemic which we reported in July has continued over the course of the last month. So far, a few thousand have been infected and the number of reported deaths has reached 26. Unfortunately, given the poor health infrastructure and communication networks in the district, these may be underestimates.
At [...]
Nyaya Health receives an ambulance from the Indian Embassy
Posted in News, tagged Achham, Ambulance, Embassy, emergency, india, Indian Embassy, Nepal, Nyaya, Nyaya Health, rural healthcare on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
Nyaya Health thanks the Indian Embassy in Nepal for its generous donation of an ambulance. With the addition of this ambulance, we will now be able to transport patients free of charge to regional hospitals between 5 and 15 hours away for life-threatening conditions we are unable to treat at Bayalpata [...]
Ten Friends donates medical stretchers to Nyaya Health
Posted in News on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Piali Mukhopadhyay
Nyaya Health is grateful to Ten Friends for the generous donation of three light-weight patient stretchers, for use in Bayalpata Hospital’s catchment area. Ten Friends is a registered US non-profit, founded by two school teachers living in the state of Oregon. Over the period of its operation in Nepal, Ten Friends has [...]
Diarrhea outbreak in Achham
Posted in News on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
A diarrhea epidemic is spreading through Nepal, particularly in the Mid- and Far-Western regions. Recent news stories have reported that the district of Jajarkot, two removed from Achham, is the current epicenter of this outbreak. Many believe this is a cholera epidemic, though this theory is unlikely to be tested [...]
Equity Editors Association Recruiting New Writers
Posted in News on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD
EquityEditors Association (EEA), a non-profit organization, co-founded by Nyaya Health, is a network of socially conscious medical, scientific, and technical editors, and is currently recruiting new writers and volunteers.
The members of EEA are a group of professional editors who leverage their writing skills to help finance innovative solutions to [...]
Nyaya Health presents at 13th Annual ANMF Conference
Posted in News on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted by Ryan Schwarz
The America Nepal Medical Foundation, a continued supporter of Nyaya’s work invited Nyaya to present our work at the recent 13th Annual ANMF Conference in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Through our collaboration with ANMF, Nyaya has been able to expand its services, in particular focusing on its community health worker network. As [...]
Opening ceremony for Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in News on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
While Bayalpata Hospital services started on June 21st, today was the official opening ceremony for the hospital. Over 300 people assembled on the front lawn, including the Chief District Officer of Achham and other local, district, and regional-level officials. The ceremony was organized by Bayalpata’s previous hospital management board, which [...]
Nyaya Health opens Bayalpata Hospital in Achham
Posted in News on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
We are pleased to announce that Nyaya Health, in collaboration with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population, opened Bayalpata Hospital this morning. The hospital, which was built over 20 years ago, has never been operational until now. We now have a functional outpatient department, emergency ward, maternity/delivery ward, laboratory, [...]
QBC Diagnostics Donates Additional Cuvettes to Nyaya Health
Posted in News on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Duncan Maru
To achieve health equity in rural Nepal, Nyaya Health deploys technologies that can operate effectively in an area with a unique set of social, economic, and logistical challenges. The QBC Autoread Plus is one such machine. This machine was originally donated to Nyaya Health by inventor Dr. Robert A. Levine, [...]
Nyaya Health releases its January to April 2009 update
Posted in News, Reports on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
Nyaya Health has posted its update for the first four months of this year. In this update, we describe how we have reviewed our services and determined how to continue improving community-based primary care in our region, build a stronger public health system in cooperation with local and national government, and [...]
Nyaya Health Ultrasound Program Featured at Telemedicine Symposium
Posted in News on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Duncan Maru
At the “Telemedicine: Future Directions in Service Delivery” Symposium held on April 24 at Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, Nyaya board member Duncan Maru presented the innovative ultrasound program Nyaya has deployed in rural Nepal. Conducted in conjunction with Yale’s Emergency Medicine Section and using a GE Logicbook E, Nyaya’s program [...]
Nyaya Health signs agreement with the government of Nepal to re-open Bayalpata Hospital
Posted in News on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
Nyaya Health is excited to announce our acquisition of Bayalpata Hospital from the Nepalese Ministry of Health and Population. Today, we signed a 5-year contract to renovate and open this hospital, which is situated a one hour walk from our existing clinic in Sanfe Bagar. This agreement culminates a yearlong [...]
Nyaya Health marks first anniversary at our Sanfe Bagar clinic
Posted in News on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza
Today, Nyaya Health marks our first anniversary of offering free clinical services in the district of Achham in Far Western Nepal. Before we arrived here, the district lacked a functioning medical facility and had no allopathic doctor for a population of over 250,000 people. The few patients who could afford [...]
