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Nobel Laureate Develops Low-Cost Health Care System for Bangladesh - 0 views

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  • meen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, has 51 clinics that offer low-cost treatment to villagers who pay an insurance premium of just $2 a year
  • Yunus says he is working with U.S. medical experts to create health care centers that allow villagers to transmit their medical information over the Internet using cellular telephones to a far-away doctor's computer. "He can see it on the screen and decide what the advice should be in this particular case and pick up the mobile phone and tell the health management center what is the next step to take, what precautions, whatever advice they have," he said.
  • One of his partners, Pfizer - the world's biggest pharmaceutical maker - is helping to evaluate Grameen's health care delivery systems. Another is General Electric, the world's top maker of medical imaging devices such as ultrasound machines. GE is working with villagers to make diagnostic equipment less complex and easier to carry to people's homes. And the Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit medical provider, is training village doctors and nurses how to use state of the art medical equipment.
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  • Yunus says another way to make his health care network sustainable is to encourage Bangladeshi women to train as nurses and become part of the Grameen health care system. "In Bangladesh, we are in a very strange situation where there are three doctors per nurse because the shortage of nurses is so big. So we thought we could turn it around. You have plenty of girls with good quality education. We can run them through the nursing colleges, and they become good health care workers and they will fill up the gap," he said.
  • Hansel on 17 Apr 09
     
    Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh is developing a health care network for the poor in his country that will operate at low cost using mobile phone technology.
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Bangladesh keen to boost bilateral trade with India- Foreign Trade-Economy-News-The Eco... - 0 views

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  • The Indian delegation, headed by ICC president Sanjay Budhia, while meeting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday, expressed willingness to set up an SEZ there. For this, it has sought a suitable 150 acre plot in that country, wherein it may attract Indian investments worth $5 billion, suggested the chamber.
  • Direct investment from India could help Bangladesh reduce its trade deficit with India. Massive investments from Indian corporates, including prominent ICC members will create surplus capacity which would not only improve availability of manufactured goods and diversify its basket of goods for re-export to India, said ICC.
  • During its discussion with the Bangladesh authorities, the Indian delegation has pointed out that sectors like energy, power (both hydel and thermal), steel, communication, healthcare, fertiliser, oil & gas, limestone and forest-based industries like paper, export of plantation crops, spices, fruits, vegetables, flower, herbs and processed foods are some of the areas which can drive a stronger bilateral economic relations between the two countries.
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  • Dwelling on hurdles to Indo-Bangla trade, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said issues like product codification and quality checking, raised by India, are acting as non-tariff barriers. To remove such bottlenecks, she has asked ICC to take up initiatives in resolving the problem of delays in getting certificates from India on Bangladesh’s exports and lack of testing facilities in the North-East. In this context, she told ICC that her government is working on product specification and upgradation of quality in consultation with Bureau of India Standard (BIS).
  • Hansel on 06 Apr 09
     
    Bangladesh is keen to resolve all issues relating to its connectivity improvement with the North-East and eastern India.
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