Dental clinics in the district towns, to the international standard, at local prices

A first step

Ask a dentist in a district town to write down the clinic's hygiene and sterilisation standard, step by step, and to put it on the wall and on one page for patients. Price the five most common treatments at the local rate and print them beside it. Tell the town's families, and the Sri Lankans abroad who send them money. The proof is a month of appointments from families who chose the clinic for the written standard.

Who pays first

A family in a district town that now travels to Colombo for dental work it would rather have done nearby, at a price it can pay, with the standard written down.

What leaves today

Families travel to the city, or go without, because nothing in the district town proves the standard; a written standard keeps the fee and the patients at home.

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