Idea 376 of 500. Cluster 18: Sri Lankans abroad, both directions
Rotations for Sri Lankan doctors abroad: a month a year at a Sri Lankan hospital, arranged and housed
The mechanism, from the book
1.5 million people abroad who know how rich countries work, and who send home money and little else.
Every idea in cluster 18 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Put one question to the medical superintendent of a hospital at home: which specialties run short for a month at a time, and would they host a visiting Sri Lankan doctor from abroad. Then approach a group of Sri Lankan doctors in one city abroad and ask who would give a month if the placement, housing and paperwork were arranged for a fee. A host's yes and one doctor's booking is the pilot.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan doctor abroad who wants to give time at home but will not spend weeks arranging the paperwork, housing and a placement alone.
- What leaves today
- Specialist skill trained abroad never returns, even for a month; an arranged rotation brings it back to hospitals at home on a regular schedule.
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
What bonds sold to Sri Lankans abroad have and have not done - Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
The institutions that could carry value back
More from cluster 18
- 361A directory of Sri Lankans abroad: who does what, where, and what they will help with, verified
- 362Return-relocation services: the school, the house, the car, the tax, in one package
- 363Sri Lanka House in London, Melbourne and Toronto: a shop, a café and a desk, the Colombo model abroad
- 364Money-transfer products that buy a specific thing at home, a course, a machine, a roof, rather than cash
- 365Investment clubs of Sri Lankans abroad that own one business each at home, with a manager on the ground
- 366Import agencies in each city with a Sri Lankan community, stocking Sri Lankan brands and nothing else
Idea 376 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.