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No.289 SIM音読用英文

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Nobel Laureate Develops Low-Cost Health Care System for Bangladesh
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Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

for setting up a bank

in his native Bangladesh

to provide small loans to impoverished women

to help them become entrepreneurs.


In recent years, he has expanded the work of his Grameen Bank

to focus on improving health care

for the 40 percent of Bangladeshis

who live on less than a dollar a day.


On a visit to Washington this week,

Yunus told an international health conference

that Grameen 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.


But he says many doctors

who run the rural clinics

want to stay only a few months

before returning to the cities,

which forced him to rethink the operation.


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.


Yunus began his partnership

with the U.S. health care providers last September

to help make his Bangladeshi clinics more cost-efficient and
self-supporting.


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.


If Yunus's health care system succeeds in Bangladesh,

he says he hopes the model can be replicated

to help millions of people

throughout the developing world.


Michael Lipin, VOA News, Washington
by danueno | 2009-04-22 11:47 | SIM音読用英文


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