A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable | Andrew Bastawrous
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In 2011, eye surgeon Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid losing their sight to curable or preventable conditions. Along the way, he noticed a problem: strict funding regulations meant that he could only operate on people with specific diseases, leaving many others without resources for treatment. In this passionate talk, Bastawrous calls for a new health care funding model that's flexible and ambitious -- to deliver better health to everyone, whatever their needs are.
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| 0:00.0 | This TED Talk features eye surgeon and inventor Andrew Bistoris, recorded live at TED Salon Optum, 2018. |
| 0:11.0 | Do you know who's watching you? Discover Palisade, the gripping new thriller that is becoming a terrifying reality. |
| 0:19.0 | In a world dominated by AI, two unlikely allies join forces to uncover corruption and murder |
| 0:25.6 | at the highest levels. |
| 0:27.3 | But who can they trust when their deadly enemy tracks their every move? |
| 0:31.6 | Readers are calling it compelling and a taut thriller for our times. |
| 0:35.7 | Palisade by Lou Gilmonde. |
| 0:37.8 | Get your copy today and make sure no one's watching. |
| 0:44.5 | These two Kenyan ladies were best friends from neighbouring villages, |
| 0:50.4 | but they'd stopped seeing each other literally for ten years |
| 0:53.6 | because both had gone blind from a curable condition called cataract. |
| 0:58.0 | They hadn't been aware they'd been sat together for over an hour |
| 1:02.0 | when we offered them surgery at the nearest hospital. |
| 1:05.0 | Mama Jane on the right told me |
| 1:07.0 | her biggest fear was that she would poison her grandson, |
| 1:10.0 | whom she'd never seen, |
| 1:11.6 | because she couldn't see what she was cooking for him. |
| 1:14.6 | Her arms were covered in burns from cooking on a charcoal stove, |
| 1:18.6 | and she despaired that she was robbing her six-year-old grandson of his childhood, |
| 1:22.6 | because he was effectively her eyes. |
| 1:25.6 | The effect of her blindness was going through the generations. |
| 1:30.2 | He wasn't able to go to school or break the cycle of poverty. |
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