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No One Should Die Because They Live Too Far From A Doctor

6/3/2017

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​Illness is universal — but access to care is not. Physician Raj Panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone, everywhere. With the 2017 TED Prize, Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a global platform that aims to modernize how community health workers learn vital skills, creating jobs along the way.
​A billion people around the world lack access to health care because they live too far from a clinic. Through Last Mile Health, 2017 TED Prize winner Raj Panjabi aims to extend health services to all — by training members of the community.
Why you should listen

Raj Panjabi was nine years old when civil war broke out in his native country of Liberia. His family fled, eventually resettling in High Point, North Carolina. As a medical student in 2005, he returned to Liberia. He was shocked to find a health care system in total devastation. Only 50 doctors remained to treat a population of four million.

With a small team of Liberian civil war survivors, American health workers and $6,000 he'd received as a wedding gift, Panjabi co-founded Last Mile Health in 2007. Initially focused on care for HIV patients, Last Mile Health has grown into a robust organization that partners with the government of Liberia to recruit, train, equip and employ community health workers who provide a wide range of services to their neighbors in Liberia's most remote regions. In 2016, Last Mile Health workers treated 50,000 patients, including nearly 22,000 cases of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea in children. While the organization focuses on integrated primary care, its network can be leveraged in a crisis. In the fight against Ebola, Last Mile Health supported government response by training 1,300 health workers in southeastern Liberia.

Panjabi is a physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative. He was ranked as one of "The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune in 2015 and named to TIME's list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2016. As the winner of the 2017 TED Prize, Raj is creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect and empower community health workers. The academy will be prototyped in Liberia and a handful of key countries, and will go global from there.
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HEAG Medical Community Ghana ("HMCG") Project

HMCG operates a multi-disciplinary physicians office, which will include private care physician services, as well as physical therapy services, a dialysis center, and a rehabilitative center, among other services.  It will have approximately 120 to 150 beds.

HEAG Medical Center Ghana (“HMCG”) is established as a private, for-profit service provider, Phase  I  new 41,000 sustainable medical care/treatment square foot facilities. It will build a strong market presence and brand recognition by offering the highest quality, world-class services at a competitive price. HMCG will meet the broad healthcare needs of a growing and demanding higher income demographic in the Greater Accra Region, and also providing medical health humanitarian outreach services for the rest of Ghana, and beyond.


HMCG will provide partnering opportunities with specialists, both national and international, in every medical and surgical field, will network with pharmaceutical FDA Drugs, Medical supplies providing management and distribution.  The HEAG Medical Management Team will provide the ability to set up private practices within the facility. These medical professionals will work effectively with each other to ensure a team-based approach to patient care which will be a key to HMCG’s success.
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