When Doug Lindberg and Dan Schwarz first met, it wasn’t at a professional conference or a meeting. They met in the virtual private community for recipients of the Up-to-Date International Grant Subscription Progam on GHDonline.org, our platform of communities where global health implementers discuss a wide range of issues.
Doug Lindberg (right) with a patient who had a surgery for an ectopic pregnancy photographed with her husband a few days after surgery
Doug is medical director of the TEAM hospital in Dadeldhura, Nepal. TEAM hospital is run by Human Development and Community Services (HDCS), a Nepali nonprofit organization working in health care, education, and community development. Dan is executive director at Nyaya Health, a nonprofit that operates a hospital and mobile medical care services in Achham, a large district nearby Dadeldhura.
Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world, with almost one-quarter of its population living below the poverty line. In Nepal, one out of every 100 children born will not survive until their fifth birthday, and less than one in five expecting women will give birth with the help of a skilled birth attendant. (CIA The World Factbook; WHO Global Health Observatory)
