Bangladesh's Floating Clinic
She'd always known that most of her 147 million fellow Bangladeshis lived in poverty. But when Runa Khan travelled through the country, she understood for the first time just how hard life could be. Back home, she cried for days. "There was so much misery, there," she remembers. "I couldn’t walk away from this problem." Khan, 48, resolved to find ways to help residents of northern Bangladesh get access to basic health care. Often, people suffered from easily treated conditions like infected wounds and dysentery. Getting to a medical facility wasn't always easy given the frequent flooding of the region. Khan's solution? A floating clinic. This Ode magazine article shares how it all came about.
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