Idea 111 of 500. Cluster 5: Wellness, which we are famous for and barely sell
Post-surgery and post-cancer recuperation stays, with a doctor on call and the sea outside
The mechanism, from the book
Ayurveda is a system of medicine the world already recognises and seeks out. The demand is there; what Sri Lanka needs is more of its own names, known and asked for abroad.
Every idea in cluster 5 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Talk to a doctor near a quiet coastal guesthouse and ask whether they would be on call for recovering guests for a fixed monthly fee. Then contact the welfare group of a Sri Lankan association abroad and ask whether members recovering from surgery would consider a 4 week stay with a doctor nearby and family able to visit. A list of interested names, with the month each would come, is your proof.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan family abroad whose parent or sibling needs weeks of quiet recovery, and who would rather pay for it by the sea than at home.
- What leaves today
- Recovery weeks are spent, and paid for, in the country where the operation happened, although the island offers the sea, the care and the family.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. TwoAn Island Nobody Has Counted
The island's resources, counted - Ch. SeventeenOne Building
The showcase that lists ayurveda among 100 to 300 Sri Lankan brands
Idea 111 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.