update email - week of 8/27/07
Sanjay Basu
http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/Current+Goals
Current Timeline
August 15-October 15: Bishnu training at Patan hospital (see goals
during training period)
November 10: Duncan and Sheela arrive to Nepal, bishnu will head to
achham with them; clinic can start relatively quickly after that.
Discussion Points
Reports
Finalize Semi-Annual Report:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dfr36vxb_21c7g2mw&hl=en
Analyze and write-up user fees survey
US-Based Activities
Better define roles for clinical protocols and web presence tasks
-wiki/blog manager
-website manager
-godaddy account and email forwarding (google apps?)
-gmail account management
-set up forwarding for folks to manage specific aspects of
this account within their own emails (i.e., each label gets forwarded
to someone responsible for this)
-remedy donations: we have two months before Dunc/Sheela go,
need to make a list of clinic equipment we want and start
seeking donations.
-volunteers:
-bills:
-general:
-adwords:
-youtube campaign/facebook causes: andrew
-web presence manager: andrew will be working with some high
school students to develop&maintain these.
battle of the bands-- andrew
roshni-- c.b.
second-year show-- ravi
local show in SF-- jason and roshani
Better define roles for each fundraising activity
-Grants team-- Sanjay
-equityedit
-google grants
-manager of donations, sending of thank you cards, updates, etc.
Personal Fundraising: chris, andrew, bibhav
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dfr36vxb_24g3257f&hl=en_US
Yale Medicine/Alumni -- Sanj
Health services financing task group
Update Board of Advisors
Add Nepalese and IT experts to Board of Advisors
New volunteers through idealist and yale undergrads-- chris and andrew
Guiding Philosophy http://www.nyayahealth.org/guiding_philosophy.html
Travel itineraries-- Sheela and Duncan in November; others:
*Budget* - where we're at, what we need.
Adigaad/NYC nepali health organization-- Bijay and Bibhav
Clinic-Based Activities
MoH/SWC Agreements-- Strategies
Electronic Medical Records-- Bijay, Electronic Clinical Works
Communications issues: CDMA and Satellite
Energy Generation-- Chris
Generator: Chinese vs. Indian? Bishnu after the training can buy
the generator.
Energy Efficiency/Engineering Issues-- Chris
Furniture - essential to have good exam tables, which should have
pelvic setup. where are we going to get these from? luknow,
prakash--- Bijay
Personnel Issues
-sangita, chettri-- email prakash: re: signing.
-Security Guard: Rajan's cousin?? - we shouldn't hire any family
members of Rajan
-Clinic Manager
-current applications
-Bishnu to comment on need for clinic manager/qualifications
-Health Insurance for Staff: reimbursement for medical expenses
for employee and for family from Dhangadi/Nepalgunj/Doti/Mangalsen.
Management Issues
Discuss best ways to maintain the clinic as MCH-focussed initially
(i.e., address problem of how to triage sick patients who aren't
mothers and children without overwhelming services) - JA: this is
really crucial to nail down. recommend that we discuss tonight,
particularly hear Bijay's thoughts, someone take notes on this, then
we should draft a one page internal policy on this, pass around board
for edits, then will give to clinic staff since they will wonder how
we're doing this.
Clinical Protocols/Intake Forms-- bijay, bibhav, jason, sanj, duncan, tejas
-contact pratap,
-try to use WHO forms from beginning.
-Referral Issues
-nutrition for patients
UNICEF/Vaccines
-through DHO office
UNICEF/MCH
NCASC
Nepal tax documents and receipts
-manoj: further contacts??
-need to find someone else
-tax docs due end of july
-scan and email to duncan
GTZ
Procurement timeline-- Sanjay
--drugs
--laboratory-- need to integrate the actual tests into budget
Malnutrition Working Group-- Andrew
Health Finances Working Group--Duncan
Short-term medical clinics-- identify patients who would benefit?
HIV and Migration
Goals During Training Period from August to November
Finalize the preliminary budget and clinic capacities.
Finalize all KTM-based governmental agreements that have not been finalized.
Develop the initial clinical protocols and translate into Nepali those
that need translation.
Formalize in writing a clinic referral system.
Formalize in writing a grievance protocol for patients to submit
grievances for care received at the clinic.
Goals for Sheela and Duncan's Trip
On the way to Achham make sure to meet the regional Health director at
dipayal. He was asking about us and told prakash that we must meet
him to inform him that we are starting a new health facility in the
area, under his jurisdiction.