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October 1, 2012
Expanding healthcare services to rural and urban Ethiopia
This post gives an overview of the dire state of circumstances in the East African country of Ethiopia. The government of Ethiopia aims to better things with its HEP or the Health Extension Programme, implemented through its HEWs or the Health Extension Workers. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
China: Rural residents get extra medical coverage
The Ministry of Health is working towards providing a secondary reimbursement to the rural poor, so that they may have to pay even lesser than they currently do for the treatment of severe diseases. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
RAD-AID International, Philips Healthcare show commitment towards providing women healthcare services
At the Clinton Global Initiative meet (“Champions of Action” plenary session), Philips Healthcare, RAD-AID International and Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) of Chandigarh showed their commitment to providing healthcare to women innovatively through their outreach programme called Asha Jyoti. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
Bangladesh: The floating hospital for the poor
In Bangladesh, where people mostly live in villages on the banks of, or close to the banks of several criss-crossing rivers, healthcare provision to the rural poor through land would be difficult. This is why Jibon Tari, or the Boat of Life, a floating boat that has access to easy […]
October 1, 2012
Peace Corps and Nepalese charities work to improve healthcare in rural Nepal
In one of recent WHO’s reports, it included India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan in the list of countries with a severe shortage of healthcare workers, and this holds particularly true for rural Nepal. The region is vulnerable to healthcare problems, and more so due to lack of even baseline healthcare […]
October 1, 2012
Developing countries strive to provide universal healthcare
A new study enlists the results of the progress made by 9 developing countries in creating healthcare systems which are universal in reach with respect to their citizens. It is a part of a study by The Lancet and reports that more than 75 per cent of the people in […]
October 1, 2012
The link between motorcycles and healthcare in Africa
On a trip to Somalia, a previous motorcycle racer, Andrea Coleman and her motorcycling enthusiast husband Barry Coleman were shocked to see new looking trucks and bokes abandoned on the road side, and found that this was done because not enough people there knew how to fix problems with the […]
October 1, 2012
India: President urges action for improving healthcare efficiency
The Indian President, while lauding the work of the Central Government NRHM scheme (National Rural Healthcare Mission), in terms of its reach and ability to provide medical care to the rural poor, pointed out that the next step would be to achieve efficiency. He pointed out that in the past […]
October 1, 2012
OPIC approves US$135 million for two investment funds in India
OPIC or the Overseas Privates Investment Corporation has now finalised an investment worth a total of US$135 million in small and medium sized enterprises and industrial logistics parks in India, which have the potential of driving economic growth for the developing country but so far lacked the capital to do […]
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