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Growing Infrastructure Needs in ASEAN

August 24, 2017
Today, ASEAN is a fast growing nation with a combined population of 600 million people and GDP of USD 2.4 trillion. ASEAN economies will need more than USD 60 billion a year to fulfill infrastructure needs, especially their energy and transport sectors (Asian Development Bank, July 2014). However, ADB found that ASEAN countries average spend only about 4% of their GDP on infrastructure. Let’s take a deeper look into the infrastructure investment needs in ASEAN and GE’s efforts to support the growth across the region.
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GE Completes Equipment Commissioning In Three Major Hospitals In Yangon, Myanmar

August 24, 2017
The Government of Myanmar has been hard at work to improve access and quality of health. Since March 2011, a series of far reaching reforms were introduced and undertaken.
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Laos, The Minnow Nation with Gigantic Development Ambitions

August 21, 2017
Although it is one of the smallest nations in ASEAN, Laos boasts one of the highest economic growth rates in the region today. Propelled by fast-developing energy, tourism, manufacturing, and agriculture sectors, major transport projects, and young population, Laos is projected to maintain its current seven percent growth rate for the next two-three years.
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The Flying Doctor: Helping Mothers And Saving Lives In Papua New Guinea

Dorothy Pomerantz
Natalie Filatoff
August 07, 2017
This story was written in first person by Barry Kirby, an Australian doctor who runs Hands of Rescue, a not-for-profit medical service in Alotau, in the Milne Bay province on the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. It is also a tribute to Peter Loko, GE’s country leader for PNG. He passed away in July.
Last Thursday I flew to the Sehulea health center, on an island off Papua New Guinea, through the only hole in the sky we’d had for months.
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Hands of rescue to save lives in PNG

July 27, 2017
Australian doctor Barry Kirby runs Hands of Rescue, a not-for-profit medical service in Alotau, in the Milne Bay province on the south-eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. In January this year, GE’s PNG Country Leader, Peter Loko, donated a Vscan Dual Probe portable ultrasound to Dr Kirby. Six months later, he emailed in this story about how he’s using it.
Last Thursday I flew to Sehulea health centre through the only hole in the sky for months.
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Healthy Financing: How A Nearly Bankrupt Hospital Is Being Nursed Back To Life

Bruce Watson
July 27, 2017
It was almost Christmas 2015, and St. Francis Medical Center, a Daughters of Charity hospital in Lynwood, California, was in serious pain. Rising healthcare costs and falling insurance reimbursements were squeezing its ailing bottom line. The managers needed to act quickly or the hospital, along with five other Daughters of Charity hospitals, might collapse and cause a blow to the community.
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How Flu Changes Within The Human Body May Hint At Future Global Trends

Tomas Kellner
July 10, 2017

What can a single person’s flu infection tell you about how the virus changes around the world? Genome researchers are discovering that new genetic technologies are letting us look at flu evolution right where it starts: within individual people, while they're sick.

 

 

Evolution is usually very slow, a process of change that takes thousands or millions of years to see.
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Revelling in the Revolution CT: specialists speak

Jane Nicholls
July 06, 2017
The first new Revolution CT scanner for WA Health was installed at Royal Perth Hospital in December 2016, with three more of GE’s latest, top-of-the-line computed tomography scanners going into service for Western Australia’s public health system this year.
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Doctor, switch off the scanner and pass the popcorn

June 15, 2017
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health Sciences is pioneering a fresh take in online professional-development courses.
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Data doctors: saving money and the planet

June 01, 2017
Specialist anaesthesiologist Dr Richard French turns to milk to help him explain a critical and costly part of the anaesthesia process, when a patient has been put under by intravenous drugs and are being kept sedated by anaesthetic inhalants. The anaesthetist is closely monitoring both the patient’s vital signs and the flow of the anaesthetic vapours.
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