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

• Main Author: Khan, Runa
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Health Services Administration; Medicine and Health; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/46; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lien_research/article/1068/viewcontent/Runa_Khan___Friendship_s_3_Tie_Healthcare_System.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.