The most powerful untapped resource in health care | Shahed Alam and Edith Elliott

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🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Whether we're rushing a child to the emergency room after a fall or making chicken soup for a feverish spouse, love inspires us to act when a family member gets sick. Global health activists Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam believe we can harness this power to create better health outcomes for everyone. Learn how their organization Noora Health works with doctors and nurses in India and Bangladesh to train the family members of hospital patients with essential skills to support their sick loved ones -- and how they plan to expand their reach to support 70 million caregivers who care for more than one billion people over the next six years. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. One organization is rethinking global
0:09.5	health care with a remarkably simple yet meaningful idea. In their talk from the TED 2022 stage,
0:16.8	global health activists Shahed Alam and Edith Elliott describe what they've learned about the power of close personal ties
0:24.1	when it comes to health care.
0:26.1	Their work is part of the Audacious Project,
0:28.7	a collaborative funding platform to support groundbreaking ideas across the world,
0:33.1	which this year raised $900 million.
0:36.4	Make sure you check out the other winners, which we've been
0:38.5	sharing talks from, all week. In the fall of 2021, I arrived in the U.S. to visit my parents
0:47.4	after almost two years of not seeing one another. I was coming from my home in Bangalore and India,
0:53.5	where we were just getting out of a devastating second wave of the pandemic.
0:57.0	Within weeks of my arrival, first my father, then me, then my mother, all came down with COVID.
1:04.0	And it hit us hard.
1:06.0	My parents' age and their medical conditions turned to make each day more severe than the last.
1:12.6	And despite my medical training, I was overwhelmed.
1:16.6	It was a nightmare when I'm guessing many of you all have faced.
1:20.6	I tried to get them tested at sites that were booked for days.
1:24.6	We call their doctors who were unavailable.
1:26.6	We tried to get monoclonal
1:28.2	antibodies, knowing that with every day that passed, that treatment became less effective.
1:33.4	And this was all while just trying to figure out what to eat and how to make them feel better.
1:39.3	Thankfully, we all recovered, but I'll never forget the depths of how alone and helpless I felt,
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