Pakistan’s Laptop Female Doctors

People Fixing the World

• Episode: Pakistan’s Laptop Female Doctors
• Website: People Fixing the World
• Feed URL: http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p04grdbc.rss
• Duration: 00:23:31
• Published: 2017-08-22 04:06

How do you help female doctors get back to work when they've given up medicine to look after their families? It's a particular problem in Pakistan where the majority of medical graduates are women who stop working after they get married. Now a scheme has been set up employing them to hold video clinics with patients over the internet, enabling them to work flexibly from home. What's more they're aiming to improve access to health care in Pakistan by targeting their 'computer screen clinics' at people living in deprived parts of the country, where the shortage of female doctors is most acute. Produced by Nick Holland Presented by Tallulah Berry Image credit: BBC