{"id":6763,"date":"2019-11-25T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"bloody-nightmare-do-good-health-businesses-struggle-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/25\/bloody-nightmare-do-good-health-businesses-struggle-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Nightmare? Do-Good Health Businesses Struggle In Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Thomson Reuters Foundation&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethical\nbusiness is growing in the developing world, as ambitious young people seek\nalternative ways to provide social and environmental services that have been\nneglected by cash-strapped or inefficient governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cameroon,\none of central Africa&#8217;s largest economies, does not have a national blood bank\nand medics usually insist families provide two donors before treating a patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With\nInfiuss, hospital staff or patients can call or text to have the right type of\nblood delivered from 23 private hospitals across Cameroon. More than 2,000 bags\nhave been dispatched, usually by motorcycle, since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bime\nwon $100,000 in 2018 as the African laureate of the Cartier Women&#8217;s Initiative,\nwhich supports women entrepreneurs, and used the money to build her own Yaounde\nclinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she could not get a permit from the ministry of health for Infiuss to operate in government hospitals, despite having dozens of meetings, including with the prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191106173713-xq7gs\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomson Reuters Foundation&nbsp; Ethical business is growing in the developing world, as ambitious young people seek alternative ways to provide social and environmental services that have been neglected by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}