Clinics
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In Somalia, for example, the Somali Red Crescent Society has established dozens of mobile health
clinics
capable of serving some of the country’s most vulnerable populations.
Thanks to funding and training offered by my organization and others, the Somali Red Crescent will provide, on a continuing basis, maternal and child health support, vaccination programs, outpatient clinics, and other forms of community-based health care.
People also need access to community-level infrastructure like health clinics, schools, power grids, and sanitation systems.
The controversy has spilled out of the psychology laboratories and psychiatric clinics, capturing headlines, motivating legislative changes, and affecting outcomes in civil lawsuits and criminal trials.
To be sure, tax cuts would not address all of the many challenges surrounding access to healthcare in emerging and developing countries, such as the lack of hospitals, clinics, doctors, and public and private insurance.
Arogya Parivar is centered on recruiting and training residents of remote villages to become “health educators,” who, along with qualified doctors, organize “health camps” – mobile
clinics
that provide access to health screenings and a robust portfolio of treatment options.
Importantly, public finance need not mean only public delivery; private hospitals and
clinics
can sometimes deliver services more effectively.
The bigger issue, as the IMS consultancy found last year, is the shortage of doctors, clinics, and hospitals, especially in rural areas.
Even the public
clinics
and hospitals that do exist are often rendered useless by high rates of absenteeism by doctors.
Local healthcare
clinics
started bundling testing and treatment for the two diseases; and, as anti-viral medications have become available in Africa, the rate of TB infections in HIV patients has begun to fall.
Even today, most information on patient care is transmitted between
clinics
and hospitals, and between generalists and specialists, by fax and telephone.
Different medical
clinics
and hospitals are installing systems that are incompatible and unable to communicate with one another.
Governments and donors can build
clinics
and schools, for example, but the investments are meaningless if the drugs and books aren’t delivered, or if the nurses and teachers don’t show up to work.
Some of these facilities may be modest local
clinics
with a few beds.
Five years after launch, the number of patient referrals to
clinics
fell 31% in the pilot area, while more than half of the program’s consultations were resolved by phone.
Each referral that was avoided saved patients, on average, 110 Ghanaian cedis ($25), and the high success rate of closed cases reduced waiting times in
clinics.
In the OECD, costly hospitals and
clinics
dominate health services, and account for 97% of the United States’ health-care spending.
Moreover, most health IT systems in use in America today are designed primarily to facilitate efficient billing, rather than efficient care, putting the business interests of hospitals and
clinics
ahead of the needs of doctors and patients.
Meanwhile, public health officials in many parts of the world struggle to respond to disease outbreaks, owing to a dearth of labs and
clinics.
That means working with local hospitals, clinics, ministries, and health-care providers, which can serve as key conduits for bioengineering expertise.
As they settle in places far from the hospitals and
clinics
in which they once practiced, Syria’s doctors simply want to get back to work.
The National Health Service and the British Medical Association have begun retraining refugee doctors, including many from Syria and Afghanistan, to fill the ranks of depleted
clinics
in UK.
It is both an invention – a prosthetic foot made from cheap materials costing about $45 (versus $8,000 for a similar device in the United States) – and an amazing, low-cost network of
clinics
around the world that has served more than 1.3 million people with new limbs, calipers, and crutches.
Yet “pro-life” groups that picket abortion
clinics
are rarely seen picketing slaughterhouses.
By powering health clinics, schools, and local businesses, including in the agriculture industry, such grids would help create more vibrant and prosperous local economies.
As fear of Ebola mounted, many citizens stopped using health services, reflected in a 23% drop in births in hospitals or clinics, a 21% drop in children receiving basic immunization, and a 39% drop in children treated for malaria.
Impunity, in turn, erodes the credibility of the country’s institutions, including public hospitals and
clinics.
But the deeper truth is that Darfur is unstable because it is home to an impoverished and fast-growing population without adequate supplies of water, food, health clinics, schools, and other basic services.
France, like most European countries, has a problem with reproductive tourism: a yearly shortage of about 700 egg donors sends some couples over the Pyrenees to Spain, where private IVF
clinics
pay providers more in “expenses” than the UK allows.
In poor countries like Nigeria, the battle against AIDS demands an array of medical personnel, clinics, and medicines that simply do not exist.
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