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

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shared by Hansel on 17 Apr 09 - Cached
  • 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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Bangladeshinfo.com : The Leading Portal of Bangladesh - 0 views

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shared by Hansel on 28 Jun 07 - Cached
  • "The number of subscribers doubled in one year -- up from 11 million in 2006 to about 22 million in March 2007, and is forecast to increase to 44 million by 2009," the ADB said in a report released on Tuesday. It said that mobile telecommunications had become one of the most vibrant service sectors in Bangladesh with its growing network coverage, which reaches about 97 percent of the country's population and 82 percent of the land area.
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Linking Bangladesh With Asian Highway To Boost Economy - 0 views

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shared by Hansel on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Sheikh Hasina said the strategically important locations of Bangladesh's two important seaports-Chittaong and Mongla- is crucial for development of the countries in this region. "We can construct a deep-sea port side by side with modernising the existing two to create opportunities for the neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bhutan, India and China, she said adding these seaports would play a significant role in the country's economy".
  • Sheikh Hasina put emphasis on information technology (IT) and said her government had given priority to this sector while in power in the past and encouraged setting up of radio, television channels in the private sector apart from breaking monopoly in mobile phone business which created the scopes for massive employment.
  • Describing huge prospects of developing waterways in the country, she said initiatives would be taken to modernise the railway and waterways side by side with the road linkages.
  • Hansel on 15 Apr 09
     
    Addressing the officials of the communications ministry in its conference room here, the Prime Minister said, "We cannot keep our doors shut at a time when the entire world is opening up and if we do so we will be isolated."
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