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Deposit before Treatment: The Initiative Standing in the Gap for Cashless Patients

Chidera Eze

March 06, 2025 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) responds to health emergencies and pays for medical bills for those who can’t afford them, helping ensure they’re not turned away from the hospital. HEI currently supports 78 hospitals across 12 states, and has intervened in 3,750 emergency road and home accident cases, paying medical bills for 33,500 patients.

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Feeding Hope: An MSF-Backed Nutrition Project is Giving Malnourished Children a Fighting Chance in Katsina

Mahdi Garba

December 23, 2024 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kofar Sauri, Katsina

Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) launched a nutrition project in collaboration with the Katsina State Ministry of Health to provide healthcare and support to children suffering from malnutrition. Currently, the organization has four centers throughout the state. Year over year, the centers are seeing an increase in the number of patients, having cared for about 20,000 patients from January 2024 to October 2024 alone.

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FG's funding initiative is transforming healthcare access in Niger State

Hamzat Abaga

November 01, 2024 |

CrispNG |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

The Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) provided by the federal government is increasing healthcare access for vulnerable populations by renovating dilapidated hospitals and improving access to reliable medical services and resources like medications and potable water.

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An Age-Old Midwife Tradition's Revival Is Saving Vulnerable Newborns

Geetanjali Krishna

October 25, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: India, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

Research shows kangaroo mother care, which is the long-standing traditional midwifery practice of giving newborn babies skin-to-skin time with caregivers after birth, provides substantial protection against infections, as well as stress relief and a chance for emotional bonding. Following several studies, the WHO recommends all babies receive immediate kangaroo care without spending time in an incubator, as researchers estimate kangaroo care could save about 150,000 lives each year.

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Asheville area doctors work through challenges to serve patients: ‘Everybody is doing everything they can'

Andrew R. Jones

October 04, 2024 |

Asheville Watchdog |

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Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

Doctors are responding to Hurricane Helene's aftermath by reopening clinics and coordinating patient care through mobile clinics, remote appointments, and rescue efforts, ensuring vulnerable patients receive medical services, including surgeries and deliveries. Despite challenges like power outages and strained resources, healthcare workers are using a bootstrap approach and demonstrating their resilience, while also highlighting the need for stronger healthcare infrastructure in disaster-prone areas.

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Healing a Dark Past: The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South

Aallyah Wright

August 12, 2024 |

Capital B (National) |

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Response Location: United States, Brownsville, Tennessee

As rural hospitals in predominantly Black neighborhoods close, groups and community members are joining forces to ensure residents can still access care by reopening a full-service hospital. Rural Emergency Hospital models remove in-patient beds but keep emergency departments active to receive federal support. About 29 rural hospitals have converted to rural emergency hospitals to ensure residents can still access care.

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Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,' Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof

Phil Galewitz

August 02, 2024 |

KFF Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

In collaboration with Intuitive Health, UF Health has opened three centers that offer both ER and urgent care 24/7, at the same facility so patients don’t have to decide themselves which care they need. Instead, doctors at the center make that decision and then the system bills the patient accordingly. This helps them avoid taking on expensive ER bills when that level of care may not have been necessary.

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Alaska's Tribal Health Organizations Are Essential, and Powerful

Peter Heckendorn

July 31, 2024 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: Copper River, United States, Alaska

Tribal health organizations deliver culturally competent healthcare, tailoring care to meet specific needs and overcome obstacles to access. These medical centers integrate traditional practices with modern medicine, and this approach to care has led to improved health outcomes for both Native and non-Native patients.

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Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the 'Last Mile'

Elizabeth Hewitt

July 09, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Rwanda

The Zipline drone system helps deliver life-saving medical supplies, such as blood and antivenom, to areas in the country that are hard to reach due to issues with the terrain, infrastructure or extreme weather. Since launching, Zipline has made more than one million deliveries.

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Saving Mothers and Giving Life through Quality Accreditation of Private Health Facilities

Adanna Opara

April 16, 2024 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

The Saving Mothers, Giving Life project aims to improve access to and the quality of maternal and infant healthcare to reduce maternal and newborn deaths. The project established a Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response team and launched an interactive digital chat solution on WhatsApp to get important health information to pregnant women. Through these efforts, maternal and perinatal deaths in 25 private health facilities decreased by 60% and 16%, respectively.

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