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Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013: The Global Hotspot for Innovation
Though the ecosystem is fairly developed in India, with innumerable incubators, investors, and facilitators, it is the entrepreneurs who continue to push the boundaries of innovation in India, capitalizing on the country’s rapid growth and optimism, and fighting head-on with the harsh realities of rural distribution, need-finding and scaling in a country where consumer tastes change every 100 kilometers, and institutional bureaucracy and corruption.
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- Social Enterprise
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Doctors on Wheels: Projeto CIES brings mobile clinics to Brazil
Brazil has a strong public health care system, but it’s plagued by overcrowding and out-dated equipment. And though it provides virtually universal access to primary care, it has lagged at delivering specialized care. Projeto CIES was founded to deliver prompt, privately-run specialty care in collaboration with the public sector, through mobile clinics. CHMI’s Rose Reis talks with Dr. Roberto Kikawa, the physician who started the initiative.
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- Health Care
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- public health
