Both sites will be aimed primarily at homeless drug users, he said, with a goal of providing them basic health services and ultimately drug treatment.
Under him progress has been made, not least in extending basic health services and education and in creating a well-liked Afghan army.
The clinic has since evolved into a four-building complex that also delivers basic health services and dentistry to the area.
Since 2009, at least a million women have died in childbirth due to a lack of basic health services and around the world 57 million children are currently missing out on school, the charity said.
Inefficient energy use in hospitals and other healthcare facilities contributes to air pollution but is also a barrier to providing even the most basic health services and ultimately universal healthcare.
The health care infrastructure of the nations most heavily affected by Ebola today – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – had been weakened by regional conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s, which degraded basic health services and limited their capacity to accommodate Ebola patients, trace their potential contacts, and communicate effectively with stricken areas.
Today, basic health services and education have improved, more people have access to clean water and better sanitation, and people's livelihoods have been given a boost with training in new farming techniques and through the creation of village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) – small, community microfinance groups that offer people the chance to save and borrow money.
He is also developing a proposal for a "universal health care voucher" system in which all families or individuals would be given a voucher -- financed by an earmarked value-added tax — that would guarantee them coverage in a private health plan with a standardized package of benefits, including basic health services and catastrophic coverage.
In those communities, the populace has limited access to basic health services and the presence of diabetes is often only discovered when serious complications arise, such as cardiac and kidney failure and peripheral vascular damage leading to strokes, blindness and amputations of toes, feet and limbs (Walgate 2008).
The majority of Congo's victims die of malnutrition, lack of basic health services, and lack of basic support.
