Friendship's 3-Tier Healthcare System: An Innovative Approach to Delivering Healthcare to Geographically and Socially Remote Areas

Author

Runa Khan

Publication Type

Magazine Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

The hardest communities to reach and treat often live in the most remote, harsh landscapes. On the nomadic islands of the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh, poor migratory communities are so cut off from urban centres that medical treatment is virtually unheard of. Runa Khan, Executive Director of Bangladeshi NGO Friendship, shares the difficult and inspired journey to build a mobile healthcare system using hospital ships, mobile clinics and community medics.

Discipline

Health Services Administration | Medicine and Health | Place and Environment

Publication

Social Space

ISSN/ISBN

1793-7809

Publisher/Conference

Lien Centre

Copyright Owner and License

Lien Centre for Social Innovation

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Citation

Khan, Runa. Friendship's 3-Tier Healthcare System: An Innovative Approach to Delivering Healthcare to Geographically and Socially Remote Areas. (2010). Social Space. 114-119.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/46