Really insightful question. With Nyaya Health (the PIH org) we're funding treatments they don't normally provide their patients (specialty referral care, think

Really insightful question. With Nyaya Health (the PIH org) we're funding treatments they don't normally provide their patients (specialty referral care, think heart surgery and the like), so yes, there's a big difference between funding organizations directly and funding via Watsi. Here's a link to the first patient we funded via Nyaya (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyayahealth/8405959818/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyayahealth/8405959818/in/photo...). She had to take a 72-hour trip from Far Western Nepal to Kathmandu to receive life-saving heart surgery. This is a pretty expensive endeavor by Nepali standards ($1,125 USD), and without funding from an organization like Watsi, specialty care for individual patients like Bageshwori is out of the question.