Many female doctors in Pakistan drop out of the profession when they start a family. Now there’s a new scheme to help them to continue in practice from home using online video clinics – and it’s helping poor, remote, communities too.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-41003627/how-to-stop-female-doctors-from-dropping-out-in-pakistan
Looks like a great project – I particularly like the way that it is giving greater control and agency to women on both ends of the project. Women providing care are able to continue in the career they are trained for, while women receiving care get support that they might otherwise not get at all. I would love to see this expanded into other regions, and into other sectors – this could work great for education, small business development and all kinds of other areas. It’s probably already being done somewhere else, but I can’t think of any specific examples right now. 🙂
