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FREE COVID-19 Tele-Screenings for Bangladeshis
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Praava Health is one of only a few health providers in Bangladesh offering telehealth services for remote screening and triage for COVID-19. While our world-class clinic remains open and serving patients, telehealth is key to prevent overload of health system resources while minimizing transmission to both health workers and patients. The US Centre for Disease Control has recommended the use of telemedicine as a response to COVID-19 to limit exposure. China too, moved 50% of its healthcare online shortly after the outbreak.
Praava Health has already rolled out FREE COVID19 telehealth screenings to our 40,000 patients . In this difficult time, we want to be able to screen as many people as possible. This funding could help us reach an additional 100,000 patients per month, and convert our call center into a 24 hour call center (we currently serve patients from 8am to 10pm every day).
Every $100 donated provides 25 telehealth screenings.
Every $500 donated provides 125 telehealth screenings.
Every $1,000 donated provides 250 telehealth screenings.
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Praava Health is a vertically integrated family health system in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We are powered by international standard doctors, diagnostics, and technology, with a world-class clinic and 6 laboratories established according to international standards, including Bangladesh’s first molecular cancer diagnostics (PCR) lab. We have the country’s first fully-integrated hospital information system and patient portal, enabling doctors and patients to access important health information 24/7.
Praava’s Founder and CEO, Sylvana Q. Sinha (Harvard MPA/ID, Columbia J.D., and Wellesley B.A.) has more than a decade of experience leading diverse, interdisciplinary teams in international law, business, development, and government relations, including at major international law firms, management consulting firms, the World Bank, and think tanks in the Middle East and South Asia. Ms. Sinha also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2008 Presidential campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama. She served on the Task Force on Global Advantage at Mount Sinai, is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a member of National University of Singapore Medicine International Council.
Ms. Sinha is honored to have attracted a rock-star team of talent (whom you can meet virtually in this video), including:
− Dr. Simeen Akhtar, Senior Medical Director, was the Head of Quality at Apollo Hospital Dhaka for 8 years and has practiced as an internal medicine doctor in the U.S., the UK, Thailand, and beyond.
− Dr. Faisal Rahman, Medical Director, has been working in hospital administration in Bangladesh for many years and is a Senior Lecturer in Hospital Administration at North South University in Dhaka.
− Mr. Sanjeev Pubbichetty, Chief Operating Officer, joined Praava from Apollo Healthcare in India, where he was the Head of Operations for the clinics line of business, leading expansion from 50 to 100 clinics pan-India.
− Dr. Zaheed Husain, Senior Director, Cancer Diagnostics, is a cancer immunologist who ran a lab at Harvard Medical School for decades and now established Bangladesh’s first molecular cancer diagnostics lab at Praava.
− Ms. Sawsan Eskander, Chief Innovation Officer, is one of a handful of actuaries in Bangladesh with deep experience in insurance and is leading our thinking on Praava’s use of data and packaging of services.
− Ms. Sabrina Imam, IT Director, has 15 years of experience in software engineering, including at IBM in the United States and in healthcare technology at an ICT-for-D firm in Bangladesh.
− Mr. Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Lab Director, has more than 15 years of experience working at and establishing internationally accredited pathology labs, including at icddr,b.
Praava Health was selected by the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures at Columbia Business School as an inaugural portfolio venture, and was also selected by Alter Global as one of Bangladesh’s most promising new companies. Praava’s work has also been featured by Forbes Magazine and Financial Times , and Praava won MIT Solve’s Bangladesh Tiger Challenge in October 2019.
Praava Health has already rolled out FREE COVID19 telehealth screenings to our 40,000 patients . In this difficult time, we want to be able to screen as many people as possible. This funding could help us reach an additional 100,000 patients per month, and convert our call center into a 24 hour call center (we currently serve patients from 8am to 10pm every day).
Every $100 donated provides 25 telehealth screenings.
Every $500 donated provides 125 telehealth screenings.
Every $1,000 donated provides 250 telehealth screenings.
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Praava Health is a vertically integrated family health system in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We are powered by international standard doctors, diagnostics, and technology, with a world-class clinic and 6 laboratories established according to international standards, including Bangladesh’s first molecular cancer diagnostics (PCR) lab. We have the country’s first fully-integrated hospital information system and patient portal, enabling doctors and patients to access important health information 24/7.
Praava’s Founder and CEO, Sylvana Q. Sinha (Harvard MPA/ID, Columbia J.D., and Wellesley B.A.) has more than a decade of experience leading diverse, interdisciplinary teams in international law, business, development, and government relations, including at major international law firms, management consulting firms, the World Bank, and think tanks in the Middle East and South Asia. Ms. Sinha also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2008 Presidential campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama. She served on the Task Force on Global Advantage at Mount Sinai, is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a member of National University of Singapore Medicine International Council.
Ms. Sinha is honored to have attracted a rock-star team of talent (whom you can meet virtually in this video), including:
− Dr. Simeen Akhtar, Senior Medical Director, was the Head of Quality at Apollo Hospital Dhaka for 8 years and has practiced as an internal medicine doctor in the U.S., the UK, Thailand, and beyond.
− Dr. Faisal Rahman, Medical Director, has been working in hospital administration in Bangladesh for many years and is a Senior Lecturer in Hospital Administration at North South University in Dhaka.
− Mr. Sanjeev Pubbichetty, Chief Operating Officer, joined Praava from Apollo Healthcare in India, where he was the Head of Operations for the clinics line of business, leading expansion from 50 to 100 clinics pan-India.
− Dr. Zaheed Husain, Senior Director, Cancer Diagnostics, is a cancer immunologist who ran a lab at Harvard Medical School for decades and now established Bangladesh’s first molecular cancer diagnostics lab at Praava.
− Ms. Sawsan Eskander, Chief Innovation Officer, is one of a handful of actuaries in Bangladesh with deep experience in insurance and is leading our thinking on Praava’s use of data and packaging of services.
− Ms. Sabrina Imam, IT Director, has 15 years of experience in software engineering, including at IBM in the United States and in healthcare technology at an ICT-for-D firm in Bangladesh.
− Mr. Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Lab Director, has more than 15 years of experience working at and establishing internationally accredited pathology labs, including at icddr,b.
Praava Health was selected by the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures at Columbia Business School as an inaugural portfolio venture, and was also selected by Alter Global as one of Bangladesh’s most promising new companies. Praava’s work has also been featured by Forbes Magazine and Financial Times , and Praava won MIT Solve’s Bangladesh Tiger Challenge in October 2019.
