“A private hospital, a for-profit microfinance company and an information technology company have joined forces to attempt what state and local governments have struggled to do for decades – bring quality, affordable medical treatment to India’s hundreds of millions of poor people.
Apollo Hospitals, Equitas and HealthNet Global are setting up “telemedicine centers” in Equitas’s 300 offices, mostly in urban slums, which will be staffed by nurses and stocked with medical testing equipment and a laptop with video conferencing.”
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Heather Timmons, The New York Times, 10 January 2012
