“Since Bayalpata’s inception it has championed an integrated care service model through its extensive Community Health Worker (CHW) program. The program’s trained CHWs have made nearly 800,000 home visits, filling a significant gap in provision of care.” GLOBAL EM
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various community health care workers in the Ramaroshan municipality, with a focus on hands-on small group trauma skills stations, including immobilization, bleeding control, snake bite management, and airway protection maneuvers in the pre-hospital setting. Longitudinal data on knowledge sustainability, and assessment of patient care metrics will inform the study team on the utility of this innovative approach and set up for further expansion in the region and other similar settings. Additionally, an image-based handbook for primary trauma skills was designed and produced for this course. Building a hospital is needed to provide care to patients; however, building a team of like-minded health
care professionals dedicated to improving the health of their community is critical for delivering sustainable rural health care. During our time at Bayalpata Hospital, we witnessed not just the delivery of high-quality and complex care, but a team of people united in their efforts and care for their patients and each other. Bayalpata Hospital is not just a building but a vessel for change. The hospital staff are not just health care providers; they are a family, a feature of this hospital's culture that provides the key ingredient for Bayalpata's success. If you would like to learn more about Bayalpata Hospital and Nyaya Health Nepal, please see their website. If you are interested in collaborating with Bayalpata Hospital please contact Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH, CTropMed® at ramu_kharel@brown.edu.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Camille Lubetkin is a thirdyear medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine in the Maine Track Program. She is interested in medical education and training in limited resource settings and is a trained facilitator for the WHO/ICRC Basic Emergency Care course. Dr. Lubetkin is a fourthyear emergency medicine resident at Brown Emergency Medicine. He is interested in emergency care capacity building in rural and resourceconstrained settings.