Introduction
In 1976 Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy (Dr V), a retired Indian ophthalmologist founded The Aravind Eye Clinic bringing about much needed innovative change for the treatment of cataracts in India. Inspiration was sought from watching the processes of others, learning from them, applying the systematic change and the successful of mobilisation of key resources in the most cost-effective manner. Dr V 's entrepreneurial drive and passion have brought huge sustainable social value to communities throughout wealth pyramid (C. K. Prahalad, 2005a)
Situation Analysis
It’s estimated that 50million people globally suffering from blindness with approx. 12million of them living in India where a disparity in scope, continuity and quality exists throughout the different areas and regions which are ‘inadequately’ serviced by the Indian National Healthcare system. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 80% of all global blindness is avoidable through either prevention; control or it can be treated successfully with the surgical removal of cataracts. In 1976 India didn’t have any eye care facilities with the capability to treat the large numbers requiring such care. Current government spending in India is approx. 1.2% of its GDP towards healthcare goods and services, in comparison to 8.3% in the U.S (Divya Rajagopal & Rohini Mohan, 2015) representing a significant existence of the market opportunity for push/pull innovation within the Indian healthcare system. India
-During discussion, the teacher will gauge how the students are following along with the “Shark Tank” Presentation.
An uneven density of health care providers in India further exacerbates the problem. Rural areas easily attract doctors and other medical
Business has been a large part of my family, and has started to grow on me. My dad worked in sales for many years, and is now the President of a company in Staples. My mom started her own cleaning business, and now works for herself, as well as my uncle owns a golf course, and a pump and well business. My other uncle has his own handy man business, while one of my aunts operates a redimix and construction company . So I guess it could be said, business is kind of in by blood.
India does have major health care hurdles. The biggest issues that affect healthcare in India stem from poverty and sanitation. Multiple complications arise when 638 million people open defecate and 122 million have no access to toilets (Indian Child, 1995). India’s social economic gaps are profound and 85% of healthcare is private sector, which makes it unreachable by the majority of the public (Indian Child, 1995). With a rapidly emerging economy India is trying to catch up to it’s healthcare needs and may be attained with a healthy economy developing. India is assessing their needs and understanding the importance of investing into social fabric. India has some good advantages for tackling healthcare 1. Utilizing models from other nations. 2. Learning to avoid costly mistakes from other countries. 3. Has the financial power to do so. Family A’s current health maintenance, protection and restoration since wife’s pilgrimage at age nine has been greatly influenced by western medicine yet some aspects are still strong within her eastern influence. Such things as preparing Khichdi, this is a lentil and rice soup with cumin, and garmmasala. It is a common comfort food for Indian culture. Dal another comfort food which usually consists of turmeric, cumin, ginger, red chili and red lentils is also prepared by the family during cold season. Family A also goes to temple to learn the
Despite significant progress in recent years, service delivery in the health sector remains weak. Due to lack of trained health care professional and staffs, the existing health care facilities are being underutilized. Based on different studies by WHO and Ministry of Health of Nepal there are many plans and policies to be executed in the next three years to bring dramatic change between the figures of Health Indicator targets. New initiative includes prevention and control of venereal diseases, introduction of
An outstanding modern success story has to do with this year's 25th anniversary of The Lifeline Express, also known as the Magic Train of India. Named "the world's first hospital-on-rails," it serves the indigent in rural villages. This hospital train is the flagship of Impact India Foundation and the Indian Railways, and has medically served hundreds of thousands of adults and children, restoring sight, mobility, hearing, and correction of clefts, all free of cost. Tens of thousands of surgeons have donated their expertise to make this ongoing dream possible.
Nepal is mountainous country in the World. The average life expectancy is 67.95. Nepal has an approx. 28 million population. Also, approximately two thirds of the health problem in Nepal are infectious disease. This infectious disease occurs high rate of illness and death. In addition to this, there are many people are infected from HIV aids due to lack of education and open boarder between India Nepal. The health system has been developed day by day. There are health post in every village development committee area. Also, now a day’s government allow private sector to invest in health care system. Right now, there are so many private health college, hospital, clinic, nursing home etc. So, we can see that health system has been developed.
The purpose of writing this report is to show how much I have learned and experience from enrolling in BBA 220. It is also include the impression and my personal reflection about the unit itself, and also the reflection about group project. Before I start this unit, I do not understand much about entrepreneur and entrepreneurship at all. I just know that people who do business are businessmen. However, after joining this unit, my understanding toward entrepreneur become different. Entrepreneur is someone who is willing to take risk by inventing a new business that does not exist in the market or start up their own business to make profit or take benefit of an opportunity. On the other hand, according to Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950),
The country of India is second in terms of population size and the major cities are becoming overcrowded. Poverty rates in India have increased over the last few years and despite the economic boom the country is experiencing, the people are still living in overcrowded ghettos or slums. Overcrowding and population has brought healthcare challenges. In India, maternal and child mortality are still high, malnutrition among children and pregnant women increase yearly, and the country leads the numbers of Tuberculosis (TB) infection. Furthermore, India’s HIV problem has increased and now is third among 195 countries. The lack of basic healthcare, support and supplies from Indian official has only fueled the healthcare challenges it faces.
Explain and critically analyze unique traits of an Entrepreneur, discuss these related to personal strengths and weaknesses
At the beginning of the course I had only had basic entrepreneur knowledge, I understood the traits, and the amount of thought put into a business. I understood a entrepreneur needed to be able to set goals and had to establish connections and business partners. I was actually lucky enough to have taken a entrepreneur class in highschool. Which taught me lots on how an entrepreneur business is started. It also taught me the required determination and hard work it takes to be a entrepreneur.
This school sees strategy formation as a visionary process and is fell under the descriptive school of strategic management. The chief architect of the strategy is the CEO of a company. This school took formal leadership seriously and CEO is responsible for strategy formulation. It stressed on mental state and processes such as instinctive knowledge, belief, wisdom, experience and insight of a single leader. The leader should be visionary in formulating strategy. The entrepreneurial school promotes strategy as a process which has a clear image and sense of direction which can be termed as a vision. Entrepreneurial strategy often occurs in startup companies and organizations in trouble and needing a
In Nepal, modern health services have a short history. Until the early 1960s, only a few urban hospitals and rural dispensaries were available. Since the late 1980s, thousands of health institutions have been established at the Village Development Committee (VDC) level. During the past 15 years, Nepal has achieved significant progress in the field of child and maternal mortality and eradicating polio and meningitis. That has been an encouragingmove toward achieving Millennium Development Goal targets. To ensure universal health coverage, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has a plan to set up health centers within a half an hour walking distance of each village. The government has started providing free basic medicine for all citizens through public health institution. However, it is generally impossible for rural people to find all prescribed medicines throughout the entire year due to shipping difficulties and medicine shortages.The government has been providing basic healthcare services through sub-health post,thebottom level of healthcare institutions in Nepal.
Taking this entrepreneur course has been the best thing I could do for myself. Not only did it grow my mindset, but it taught me how to focus and concentrate on meeting my goals. At the beginning of this semester I could not let go the negative self-image I had of myself. Since I have been able to reflect on who I am I am slowly able to let go of that past image. I now know that I am more than able to reach my goals with the proper mindset and skills. I have come a long way since the beginning of this course. At the beginning of this course we were asked what is most important in life, and when I chose myself I knew after that reflections that I was off to a great start. Putting myself first these last few months has been the best thing I
Have you ever had a miraculous idea? The kind of idea where your head keeps on spinning with intriguing questions, so many that your head might spin right off. Where to start and whose going to pay for it? Is the idea even possible to make? These are a couple of the question racing through your mind. The adrenaline is rushing through your blood steam. You want to tell everyone in the world, but in the real world there are people out their looking to steal those great ideas. Which in turn leads to secretiveness of the idea. In a sense it would be like spilling the beans on the Manhattan project.