Doctors training
In developing countries in East Europe or Africa fertility treatment such IVF (in vitro fertilization) is in very bad shape/ only few doctors can have a private clinics. We wish to train young doctors and laboratory experts in Israel and to assist them to establish more private and public clinics for the communities they belong to.
About You
About You
First Name
Ofra
Last Name
Balaban
Website
Your Organization
CHEN - Patient Fertility Association
Country
About Your Organization
Organization Name
CHEN - Patient Fertility Association
Organization Website
Organization Phone
972-3-5050345
Organization Address
13 Vitkin St. Holon 58510
Organization Country
Israel
Organization Type
Non-profit/NGO/Citizen-sector Organization
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Your solution
Name Your solution
Doctors training
Describe Your Solution
In developing countries in East Europe or Africa fertility treatment such IVF (in vitro fertilization) is in very bad shape/ only few doctors can have a private clinics. We wish to train young doctors and laboratory experts in Israel and to assist them to establish more private and public clinics for the communities they belong to.
Country your work focuses on
Israel, C
If multiple countries, please list them here. If your solution targets an entire region, please select it below
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzanya, South-Africa, Niegeria, Slovakia
Region(s) your solution focuses on:
Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa.
Range of turnover in your target firms, in USD
Less than $1 Million.
Average turnover in USD of your target firm
100000
Number of employees in your target firms
5-24.
Average number of employees of your target firm
9
Specify the size, average and range of expected loans or investments in each target firm
Infertility is a complex issue specially in Africa. Women that with infertility problems is in danger. in order to establish public clinics for about 10% of the women that suffer infertility we need more IVF specialists and experts. Each 16 weeks of training cost 70,000 USD. We wish to train 2 doctors and 1 embryologist each session X 3 times a year so its 9 X 70'000 = 6300000USD. The above sum is for the medical training that will qualified them to operate a public IVF clinic in their country.Investment in such a project will allow us in Israel t assist the infertile population.
What stage is your solution in?
Idea phase
Innovation
What makes your innovative solution unique?
The unique solution is that the fertility patients associations in the above mentioned counties are the "engine" of this innovation. The project is also built as a long term loan to the doctors . The will be back to their countries and follow up for 5 years . During the time they will return the loan they got from us and we will be able to finance more trainings. Since we know the numbers, the suffer, the agony of infertile couples we decided to create such a solution. We also know that fertility solutions are sometimes simple if you have early diagnosis and access to treatment. We know the all that since we are all former patients. It is patient assist patients. Israel is the best country for such trainings since we have here the higher number of IVF cycles per year and the advanced personal and know-how to the project. We wish that the governments of the countries will promote a change in cover of costs of infertile couples on one hand and change the demographic birth rate on the other hand. In countries such Slovakia the rate of children's birth is the lowest in Europe (1.3 per one million citizens).In African countries we think the treatment access is will change the number of patients.
How does your proposed innovation leverage public intervention in catalyzing private SME finance?
The training place in Israel is SME. The clinic in the target places will be public but the doctors that will trained will be able to open also private clinics in their countries so the advantage will be doubled, public and private. We also wish that the trainees doctors will repay back ti the program half of the costs as a long term loan from us to them.
What barriers does your proposed solution address?
Lack of financial capacity.
If you checked any of these barriers, describe how your solution addresses them
Since the doctors we wish to train are from African countries as well as East European countries, they do not have the budget to participate in such training and cover the costs of flights and accommodation for 16 weeks. we are finance the training as a long term loan for the participants. While offer the training with a program of participation and follow up and professional supervision 5 years after the training is over we will be able to assist the doctors on one hand and to get back the loan we are giving them for the program. Such a plane can offer raining with high qualification doctors for the local population of infertile couples. 10% of the couples are infertile so we may assist to more couples by training more doctors.
Impact
Provide empirical evidence of your proposed solution's success/impact at present. If your project is in the idea phase, please provide evidence that speaks to its potential impact
10% of the couples are infertile ans need for medical assistance in order to become an happy family. Professional doctors , opportunity for access to treatment and early diagnosis are the basic parameters to change the above number of infertile couples. The impact of the project is the number of doctors that will finish is and start working in their home countries.. Since the project includes 5 years of supervision we may have the information about each trainee.
We wish that the governments of the countries will promote a change in cover of costs of infertile couples on one hand and change the demographic birth rate on the other hand. In countries such Slovakia the rate of children's birth is the lowest in Europe (1.3 per one million citizens).In African countries we think the treatment access is will change the number of patients.
How many firms do you expect to reach?
Each doctors can open a private clinic as well as working in a public one so we think that a success will be that half of the raneed doctors will open a private clinic during the project.
What is the volume of private SME finance you aim to catalyze?
We wish that private clinics of the trained doctors willbe at least in half of the trainees. We should be able to serve and treat the infertile couples in their home countries. The Israeli SME that will operate the training will also grew.
What time frame will be required to reach these targets?
The project is for 16 weeks of training in Israel and than a supervision in the homeland of the trainees for the next 5 years.
Does your solution seek to have an impact on public policy?
Yes
What would prevent your solution from being a success?
Lack of budget will prevent the project to take place.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Describe the social impact of your innovation. Please include both numbers and stories as evidence of this impact
The social impact of the project is the higher level of medicine , awareness programs that will follow in the countries of the participants and reduce of HIV and other STD's in the countries aseptically in Africa. We also wish that the governments of the countries will promote a change in cover of costs of infertile couples on one hand and change the demographic birth rate on the other hand. In countries such Slovakia the rate of children's birth is the lowest in Europe (1.3 per one million citizens).In African countries we think the treatment access is will change the number of patients.
Better access to treatment accompany with awareness programs and educational programs can lead to a better situation and less infertile patients. We as patients organizations wish improve the treatment for patients on one hand and to prevent the coming patient as possible.
Sustainability
List all the funding sources that are required for the sustainability of this solution
UN, WHO, EU fund programs for training.
Local governmental funds.
Private sources such as pharmacy industry.
Demonstrate how your proposed solution has the capacity to graduate from dependence on public finance. What is the time frame?
We think that in a year we will be able to start the program. Since the moment we will have the start budget we will be able to promote it until we will reach our goal of training more participants. It is a long term project that might continue as the participants will return their loans.
Demonstrate how your proposed solution will survive a potential loss of its largest private funding source
The project is planned to be a long term project that will survive its largest private funds loss by the continuity of returning the loans from the participants. Another step is reducing the costs by changing the number of participants each time according to the budget of the ptoject.
Please tell us what kind of partnerships, if any, could be critical to the greater success and sustainability of your innovation
The partners for this projects are the Israeli IVF Center, the patients associations in the participant countries. The doctors from the countries mentioned above that wish to be trained.
Are there non-financial issues that could threaten the sustainability of your proposed solution?
We do not think that there is such.
Please tell us if your proposed solution aims to scale up through a high growth sector, expand immediately to multiple sectors, and/or scale up geographically
We think that this model is available not only in IVF medicine but for all high growth sector such as agriculture , Engineering or other.
