CHICAGO: Nyaya Health, a no profit organization delivering transparent, data-driven health care to Nepal’s rural poor, has been nominated for a share of $5 million in grants, which will provide free health care for thousands in rural Nepal.
Nepal, a south east Asian country neighboring India, is in dire need of health care workers, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Information released by WHO, indicates that it has fewer than 23 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 population. This lack of trained workers is “hampering the delivery of health services” and calls for community-based health care work as a solution.
The nonprofit Nyaya Health is expanding access to health care in the far western region of Nepal, one of the remotest areas of the world. It is addressing the need through once-closed Bayalpata Hospital and training of its more than 70 community health workers. The facility treated 11,300 patients in 2011.
Nepal is one of the least developed countries in the world, and mothers and children regularly die from conditions treated routinely in the United States. The rate of worm infestation in rural areas is 74 percent, leading to devastating rates of malnutrition. About half of children under five suffer from stunted growth caused by chronic malnutrition.
Nyaya Health uses a forward-thinking model that’s building sustainable, long-term infrastructure for health care in Nepal’s far-western region. 98 percent of Nyaya Health’s staff is Nepali, and more than 80 percent of team members come from the far-western region where the organization works. More than 101,000 people in the region have accessed free health care since 2008 thanks to the nonprofit’s work.
Nyaya Health brings life-saving, quality health care to rural Nepalis by establishing hospitals and clinics and training community health care workers. The nonprofit, which re-opened the previously abandoned Bayalpata Hospital, has brought free health care to more than 101,000 people in Nepal’s far-west region.
Surendra Ullal
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