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Internet connects deepest Nepal to 'telemedics'
Kathmandu (AFP) March 31, 2010
Patients in rural Nepal will soon be able to consult specialist doctors over the Internet as part of an innovative scheme to improve health care in remote areas of the Himalayan country.
Over the next few weeks, the government will begin connecting 25 district hospitals, most of them located in the rugged and inaccessible Himalayas, to specialist consultants in the capital Kathmandu using sa ... more
Indian outsourcers eye bonanza from US healthcare bill
New Delhi (AFP) March 31, 2010
Indian outsourcing firms are banking on a business bonanza from US President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform as cost pressures prod insurers and hospitals to become more efficient.
The 940-billion-dollar US healthcare bill, passed in March, will extend health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans over the next decade and require insurers and medical care providers to cut costs ... more
Garbage boy beats the odds at Haiti slum hospital
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) March 28, 2010
Erod holds onto the bars of his cot and smiles, oblivious to his own amazing survival story 10 weeks after being left to die in a mound of stinking garbage following Haiti's earthquake.
Found in a chronically malnourished state, the 18-month-old boy was taken to a hospital in the Port-au-Prince slum of Cite Soleil where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) returned to run things after the January ... more
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