Starter Kit. Idea 471 of 500. Cluster 25
Sports-physio and rehabilitation clinics serving the touring teams and the visitors
The mechanism, from the book
The country's best-known export is cricket, and little of the business around it is built at home.
The first step
Visit the hotels near the main cricket grounds and in the surf and trail towns, and ask each manager what happens when a guest or a touring player is injured. Offer a physiotherapy session at a stated price, delivered at the hotel, and ask whether they will keep your card at the front desk. A hotel that says yes, and one booked session, are your proof.
- Who pays first
- An injured visitor or a touring squad's support staff, who need a trusted physiotherapist today and will pay a visitor's rate for one who comes to them.
- What leaves today
- Touring teams fly their own physios in and injured visitors fly home to be treated, so the rehabilitation fees leave the island with them.
Ask first
- Sri Lanka Medical Council. Ask how a physiotherapist's qualifications are registered before they treat patients.
- the area Medical Officer of Health. Ask what a treatment room must meet before it opens.
Check before you spend
Confirm that every therapist is properly qualified and registered, professional insurance, and written agreements with the hotels that refer guests.
Find out these three numbers
- What would an injured visitor pay for one session?
- How many injuries a month do nearby hotels see?
- What does a qualified physiotherapist expect to earn?
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.