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Grameen Healthcare, SGHG to establish trust
The Daily Star - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Grameen Healthcare Trust and Saudi-German Hospital Group (SGHG) of Saudi Arabia yesterday signed a cooperation agreement for establishment of a trust to build social business hospitals which will bring health services to the country’s poor and disadvantaged people, says a press release.
Sources said the partnership deal will work with the common social goal of providing primary and secondary healthcare services to the people, particularly to the most disadvantaged.
As part of the joint-venture initiatives, a 50-bed hospital named ‘Al Sabeel-Grameen Hospital’ will be established at first. On the basis of success of the hospital, more hospitals will also be built in the country.
Nobel laureate and Grameen Healthcare Chairman Prof Muhammad Yunus and SGHG President engineer Sobhi Batterjee signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations at Grameen Bank headquarters in the city.
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) President Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ali was present at the signing ceremony as chief guest. Saudi Charge d’Affaires in Dhaka was also present at the programme.
Professor Yunus said, “We are very happy to collaborate with the Saudi-German Hospital Group on social business hospitals in the country. After establishment of our first 50-bed hospital, we hope to create several such hospitals for the benefit of the poor and disadvantaged people. We look forward to our partnership with the Saudi German Hospital Group”.
SGHG President Sobhi Batterjee said, “Saudi German Hospital Group will bring expertise in building and running hospitals. Grameen will bring its expertise in reaching the grassroots people with services. We are looking forward to this collaboration.”
IDB President Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ali said, “The IDB will be an active partner in ensuring the success of this partnership.”
Prof Yunus and Sobhi Batterjee, president of SGHG, a leading provider of medical services in the Middle East, met in Dubai January this year and decided to embark on a collaboration of setting up social business hospitals in Bangladesh and beyond.
by RSS
The idea is very much appreciated. Grameen should go for complete network of parallel health care services in Bangladesh to make its program more successful.
By: bdoza on May 30, 2008
at 6:54 pm
Yes, Badrud, this is a really positive initiative which is genuinely private.
Here in the UK (and elsewhere in the West), public services are falsely privatized, i.e. private companies benefit from public deals and contracts.
I do find it “interesting” that Bangladesh should teach her colonial masters how to run public services!…
Yours gratefully once again,
Sabine
By: Sabine McNeill on May 30, 2008
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By: And the rest; a Grameen wrap-up - LiveForTheWorld.com on April 4, 2009
at 6:14 am
sir i run a school in earthquake affeact area and my trust is will run a hosptial for poor in the village we have land we are lack of funds
By: abd gaffar patel on October 24, 2010
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Dear Mr Patel
I’m afraid we have problems raising funds ourselves…
So sorry I can’t help…
Money, the way it has been institutionalised by the Western global elite, has become a tool for control. It has lost its meaning as a medium of exchange.
I’m sure you’ll get the help you need!!!
By: Sabine Kurjo McNeill on October 25, 2010
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