Idea 358 of 500. Cluster 17: Health, care and the parents of Sri Lankans abroad
Dental clinics to the international standard, priced for both the visitor and the local
The mechanism, from the book
Sri Lankans abroad have parents at home whom they cannot look after from Melbourne. They will pay, and the money stays.
Every idea in cluster 17 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Price five common treatments at clinics abroad that Sri Lankan families abroad use, by asking friends there for their last bills, and price the same five with a dentist at home who works to a written hygiene standard. Put the two columns on one page and send it to a Sri Lankan association abroad before the holiday season. Appointments booked for the next trip home are your proof.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan family abroad coming home for the holidays who would book their dental work here if the standard were written down and the price shown.
- What leaves today
- Dental spending by Sri Lankans abroad stays abroad because nothing proves the standard at home; a published standard brings that fee, and visitors' fees, to the island.
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
Idea 358 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.