Grameen Health to Establish Independent Collaborations with Pfizer, GE Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic to Create Sustainable Healthcare Delivery Models for the Developing World

Business Wire, Sept 24, 2008

GH will be a nation-wide healthcare service for all people, but particularly focused on the poor women and children. Just as Grameen Bank brought financial services at an affordable price to poor women, GH will aim to bring state-of-the-art health services to all people -- particularly poor women and children. GH is in discussion with some of the world's leading health providers. In addition to Mayo Clinic, GE Healthcare and Pfizer, Grameen is working on plans for collaborations with Massachusetts General Hospital, John Hopkins Hospital of the USA, Narayana Hrudayalaya of India, Johnson and Johnson, Bayer, BASF, Aga Khan University, and others.

This initiative will lead to the creation of a world class medical college and hospital, specialized hospitals, research centers in a 200 acre Health City, a series of nursing colleges, training programs for technicians, second tier hospitals, and rural health management centers throughout the country. Each rural health management center will be dedicated to improving and maintaining the health status of the people in its region, particularly focused on the poor women and children. These centers will be IT-linked with the Health City in Dhaka for continuous attention by specialist doctors and nurses. Through the nursing colleges, GH will train Bangladeshis -- particularly the newly educated class of Grameen borrowers' daughters -- to choose nursing as a profession and to serve in Bangladesh and abroad.