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New medical schools, clinics, communications lines, and training centers for medical personnel and counselors must be built.
Because many people do not have easy access to hospitals and clinics, these figures are rough estimates at best.
General Electric, for example, is cutting down the functions provided by its medical equipment to only what is strictly useful in order to supply remote rural clinics across the developing world.
Although abortions have been constitutionally protected since 1996, just 5% of public clinics and hospitals offer the procedure, and as many as half of all abortions are conducted in unsafe facilities.
It is also necessary to have access to well-equipped clinics and medical staff.
Such clinics can be found in many countries, including Iran, Pakistan, Ukraine, South Africa, and the Philippines.
Small clinics typically refer their oldest patients to the closest big hospital, which is often many miles away.
Under George W. Bush, the rule forced the closure of eight clinics – most of which were the sole providers of health care in their communities – in Kenya alone.
Some of these clinics were run by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, which served 56,000 people and did not provide abortions.
One of the clinics that was shuttered had been providing comprehensive infant and postpartum care.
In the third phase, lasting three to five years, aid supports the first phase of post-war economic development, including restoration of schools, clinics, farms, factories, and ports.
Small rural clinics can be built or rebuilt very quickly, within the first year of peace.
Costs to individuals and their families include drugs, travel to and treatment at clinics, lost time at work and school, and expenses for preventive measures.
In 2013, for example, the Carlos Slim Foundation conducted a rigorous baseline assessment at eight primary-care clinics to understand the state of diabetes prevention and treatment.
Participating clinics have been equipped with an online system to track drug inventories and avoid shortages.
For example, researchers working in India in 2005 found that Indian women stopped going to health clinics in order to avoid debasing treatment by health workers – to the detriment of their own wellbeing and that of their children.
The woman had been in and out of local clinics with a stubborn chest infection and fever, and by the time I examined her, she was receiving chemotherapy for blood cancer.
Senior US officials continue to say that there is no infrastructure to dispense medicines, even as these officials visit hospitals that possess the necessary doctors, clinics, nurses, and pharmacies.
Moreover, online consultations would be possible, sparing women the need to travel to clinics.
Instead of hearing more lectures from the IMF about cutting budgets, poor countries need larger budgets to pay for the required investments - roads, power supplies, ports, schools, and health clinics - to jump-start economic growth.
Resources must be channeled into training for staff, more clinics, and medicines, and be employed as effectively as possible in each area.
But while rushing to construct clinics and other medical facilities in even the remotest regions may seem like a straightforward approach to ensuring universal health coverage, that has not turned out to be true.
But when countries rush to build more clinics, the resulting facilities tend to be hastily constructed and lacking in the equipment, supplies, and staff needed to deliver vital health services effectively.
Decentralized local governments, which have little authority over remote clinics, cannot supervise their activities.
With a more measured approach, it will take longer to build the same number of clinics.
Today, nearly two million refugees receive emergency food and cash assistance from the organization, and each year millions use the 143 UNRWA-run health clinics.
Private (sometimes for-profit) clinics are common worldwide, yet do not confront the opposition that for-profit schools elicit.
Conditional cash transfers are also widely accepted in poor countries, and de facto they involve paying mothers to do such things as send their children to school or take them to clinics to be vaccinated.
The returnee has built schools and health clinics.
It is invariably more efficient to build and maintain health-related infrastructure, such as water supply and sanitation systems, clinics, and hospitals, and deliver specialized health care, where population densities are highest – and to create affordable-care networks of community health workers using low-cost technology.
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