Medical tourism packages for cataract, hip and knee, with the surgeon's record published

A first step

Choose one procedure, cataract, hip or knee, and ask three surgeons in private hospitals whether they will publish their number of operations and their complication record for a visitor's brochure. The one who says yes is your partner. Put the package on one page, surgeon's record, hotel, transfers and price, and send it to 10 Sri Lankan families with friends abroad who are waiting for that operation.

Who pays first

A patient abroad facing a long wait or a high price for a knee operation, introduced by a Sri Lankan friend who vouches for the surgeon.

What leaves today

Patients who could pay island prices go elsewhere because no surgeon's record is published; the record is the proof that brings the fee here.

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. EightWhat It Costs to Go First
  Remittances and what it costs the first one to go
• Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
  The institutions already in existence that could carry value back

More from cluster 17

• 341Home-care agencies with trained, vetted carers, booked and paid from abroad
• 342Assisted-living homes for the parents of Sri Lankans abroad, with the standard published and inspected
• 343A daily check-in service: a nurse's visit, a photograph, a message to the child abroad
• 344Medical escort services: a nurse takes the parent to the appointment and reports back
• 345Pharmacy delivery with the prescription managed and the refills tracked
• 346Dementia day-care centres, which hardly exist yet and are needed everywhere

All 20 ideas in this cluster