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Business Daily: The Healthcare Timebomb

06/03/2013

The Healthcare Timebomb

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The Healthcare Timebomb

With new chronic conditions threatening, how to pay for the spiralling global sick-list?

Some fear a crisis in healthcare as the world's population grows older and fatter. With new chronic conditions threatening, how to pay for the spiralling global sick-list?

Who's going to pay for you when you're sick and old? Some health professionals fear a financial crisis in healthcare as the world's population grows older, and in many cases fatter. We hear from Mexico where a pioneering chain of clinics, SalaUno,  is providing eye surgery at 20 times the rate of the state hospitals. Javier Okhuysen, a former banker and one of the founders of SalaUno, explains how it's done. 

And we hear from Anant Kumar, a former CEO of LifeSpring Hospitals in India, which are achieving similar efficiencies in maternity treatment. 

Also Lord Darzi, a surgeon based at Imperial College in London, and the Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, explains how a new examination of healthcare efficiency is urgently needed, given the changing nature of the global challenges we face.

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