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Residents wade through flood water in Obagi community Residents wade through flood water in Obagi community,

Parkers Resilient Health Takes on Nigeria's Climate Challenges

by Charles Umeh

The telemedicine platform aims to expand health-care services to people living in flood prone regions

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A passenger wearing a protective face mask is seen from the window of a bus, after the provincial government started easing the lockdown restrictions and allowed to resume city public transport in Sindh, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

The Expansion of Virtual Emergency Care

by Yuexuan Chen, Rahul Sharma

Phones, cameras, and call centers improve patients’ access to health care in Pakistan

A nurse at the home of a Covid positive patient to install and explain the operation of the device for Telemedicine, in Conversano on May 6, 2021.
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Telehealth's Transformation of Climate Change

by Rahul Sharma

Patient travel is a large driver of CO2 emissions, but telehealth can change that

Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic