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October 1, 2012
India: Fortis to set up low cost hospitals in Tier II and III cities
Fortis Healthcare is planning to set up a number of low cost hospitals in India’s Tier II and III towns and cities. This is part of an effort to tap the semi-urban healthcare market which consists of huge untapped market potential. Fortis plans to set up 25 multispecialty hospitals with […]
October 1, 2012
Low cost baby scanner reveals foetus defects
British engineers from Newcastle University, UK, have been able to develop a low cost hand-held foetus scanner which is high in efficiency and is able to detect problems same as conventional scanners. The difference lies in the cost – this handheld scanner, which can be plugged into any device costs […]
October 1, 2012
Bangladesh’s urbanization creating a healthcare black hole
Dhaka in Bangladesh is home to sprawling slums, which get pushed increasingly far out to the city’s fringes. The administration does not acknowledge, let alone take responsibility for these voluntarily displaced people and healthcare has emerged as an area of concern – with hospitals already working on a 50 per […]
October 1, 2012
Ethiopia: Red Cross provides water-relief
As many as 1500 people living in the Tahtay Adiyabo region in northern Ethiopia benefited from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) initiatives of building four wells for access to clean drinking water. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
Making sanitation subsidies effective
This post compiles data from the IRC Water and Sanitation Centre event wherein subsidies for sanitation availability in the developing world was discussed. It is imperative to find out from these arguments the rationale for subsidies being successful in one region while sometimes failing in others to understand what works […]
October 1, 2012
Uganda: Kiboko Enterprises launches ‘One billion sanitation campaign’
Uganda loses US$177 million annually due to poor sanitation. Because of this dire condition of sanitation in the country, Kiboko Enterprises in Uganda has launched a sanitation campaign worth UGX 1 billion, wherein medicated soaps and clean water will be provided to several schools, and a total of 375,000 households […]
October 1, 2012
P&G reaches a milestone with its Save One Life Every Hour
Save One Life Every Hour was an initiative launched by P&G to provide clean drinking water to poor and disadvantaged communities throughout the developing world, through their P&G Purifier of Water Technology. They announced the achievement of milestone in this effort as it recently completed delivering 5 billion litres of […]
October 1, 2012
Non-profits, entrepreneurs pair up for clean toilet microloans in Kenya
In Nairobi, as much as 90 per cent of the waste is dumped into rivers, creating a public health risk of massive proportions. Kenyan slums have no way of disposing off their filth as they only have two options – the infamous ‘flying toilet’, or spending on toilets which were […]
October 1, 2012
Pakistan: Poor sanitation costs the country PKR 243 billion annually
Pakistan, like many other developing countries loses a sizeable amount of its funds to healthcare and environmental costs of bad sanitation. It is estimated that the nation loses as much as PKR 243 billion on the same. Read more here. Apparently, more than half the country lacks basic sanitation, and […]
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