Nyaya Health

Duncan Maru, MD/PhD, is a co-founder of Nyaya Health.

We recently signed an agreement with Nepalgunj Medical College to improve the timeliness, safety, and effectiveness for the care received by patients from Bayalpata Hospital who require advanced treatment.  Typically, the system makes it such that patients who need referrals are left to fend for themselves, without clear mechanisms to ensure that follow-up and follow-through happens.  Care received by different providers is communicated via a chaotic array of non standardized patient cards that different providers have to leaf through to figure out what happened to the patient previously.  

With this agreement, Nepalgunj Medical College staff will receive our referral card, along with a request for payment subsidy and a form filled out detailing the patient’s socioeconomic status.  Our patients will qualify for subsidized care under Nepalgunj Medical’s charity care program, since most of them cannot afford the fees for their treatment.  The treating physicians there will fill out the card and return it with the patient to Bayalpata so that we can provide follow-up care effectively.  Additionally, Kanchan Gautam was with us and we toured their laboratory facilities which proved helpful in designing our laboratory expansion lay-out and procurement plans.

Drs. SK Konadia and MC Jain from Nepalgunj and Drs. Sheela Maru and Duncan Maru from Nyaya Health at Nepalgunj Medical College