Ruma Rajbhandari

Assistant Professor @harvardmed, GI/Liver MD @mgh_gi, Associate Scientist Division of Global Health Equity @BrighamWomens

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@himmoderator @TIME Kathmandu was the cleanest I have ever seen during his tenure as mayor. He and other members of RSP are also the most educated politicians we have ever had. I am cautiously optimistic!

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@JeremyFarrar Would like to see comparison with Pneumovax rather than Tdap.

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@himmoderator Excellent—thanks for sharing

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

Wonderful start to the 12th Rural Healthcare Workers Conference. Attendees were 90 mid-level healthcare workers from all over Nepal. The Nick Simons award went to Kanchan Shrestha, a midwife from Nuwakot. True heroes propping up Nepal’s health system!

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@DrEstherFreeman @WomensDerm @ILDSDerm @AADmember Congratulations! So well deserved!

[Dr Jean Kaseya @Dr_JeanKaseya]

I am so pleased to announce that @AfricaCDC has spearheaded a major move by African leaders to secure Africa’s health future by creating a 50 billion dollar medical market #pooledprocurement #africa

[Ramesh Singh Bhandari @RameshSinghBh12]

A milestone !! transplant day:12th jan24.
First successful independent living donor liver transplant in Nepal by Nepalese team. Donor-day 10 and Recipient being discharged today.
Congratulations TUTH liver transplant team. Proud and Privileged to lead this team. @IHPBA @_ILTS_

[MGH Division of Gastroenterology @MGH_GI]

A perfect match!!! We are thrilled to welcome our new GI fellows and honored these amazing physicians have chosen to train in our program. 🎉

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@annaunchaleeMD @orlandohealth @SighPichamol @PeakNatapatMD @AmberCharoen @SimoneJarrettMD @MetabolicEndo Congratulations! Wonderful news!

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In my entire career, not even a single husband came forward to donate his Kidney to his sick wife, & save her life.
3. When a woman is a Kidney recipient, the person who donates is usually a sister or daughter, or mother.
4. Most women r ready to offer their kidneys to their ailing husbands to save his life. The converse never happens.
5. There was once an extreme case, when a 19 yr old legal wife, donated her Kidney to her 45 yr old husband. After the Tx, I was casually talking to her. Her story was bizarre. This was her elder sister's husband. Just for Tx, the entire family had planned it carefully. The husband divorced his wife, & the 19 yr old girl was beaten fr days to marry the 45 yr old man, since her Kidney was a perfect match.
So, a simple survey of Kidney Tx recipients & donors exposes how deeply patriarchal, misogynistic, our rotten society is.
Scratch the veneer of democracy, modernity in India, & u find that underneath, we are still a feudal, casteist, misogynistic, patriarchal community.

[Fasika Teferra, M.D. @DrFasika]

Amazing! 👏

[Katalin Kariko @kkariko]

Photo of the day: Rowing Mom Wins Nobel
https://t.co/UddXKufGIb

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@paimadhu @mcgillu Congratulations! So well deserved! You continue to be an inspiration.

[richard horton @richardhorton1]

“The current preoccupation with primary healthcare condemns millions of people to disease, pain, and death. This acceptance of failure is intolerable.” https://t.co/pYnXVO2v88

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@richardhorton1 Completely agree! Need to also focus on #hospital based care where most cancer-related interventions would take place. https://t.co/bUraXBGpnB

[सुरेश तामाङ Sur Esh Tamang, PhD @mailalama]

Finally, the impact of FEP program has published in PLOSOne. This paper was severely delayed by COVID! FEP was one of the most unique & impactful programs to promote Nepal's rural healthcare! @NickSimonsInst @mohpnep @rumaraj123 @DrMingmaSherpa @bheribas
https://t.co/kyH2BXaIO1

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

Have you ever been frustrated with #globalhealth training programs that report only the number of trainees as an outcomes? We actually followed up our skilled birth attendant trainees at their sites of work at health posts and hospitals throughout #Nepal https://t.co/LiK1T5G8ms

[Ruma Rajbhandari @rumaraj123]

@BibhavAcharya @NIMHgov @possiblehealth @UCSFPsychiatry Amazing Bibhav! Congratulations!

[Mukesh Adhikari @mukes_adhikari]

The way how vaccines and drugs are supplied in Mountainous regions of Nepal! We need structural and/or innovative approaches to address this perennial problem. @mohpnep @WHO @WHOSEARO