Pfizer 'explores sustainable healthcare'
25 Sep 2008
Pfizer is teaming up with a micro-financing organisation in Bangladesh with the aim of identifying sustainable healthcare delivery in the developing world.
It will work with Grameen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, to explore ways to improve existing delivery systems and clinics in rural Bangladesh.
Business models will be developed which could ultimately be replicated in other developing nations.
Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and director of Grameen Bank, commented that Pfizer shares his organisation's belief that "solutions to improving access to medicines and healthcare can be socially responsible and sustainable, yet commercially viable".
Jean-Michel Halfon, area president of Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Middle East pharmaceutical operations for Pfizer, suggested that the lives of "millions of patients" may potentially be improved as a result of the partnership.
Pfizer is one of nine firms in the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector to have been named in this year's Climate Disclosure Leadership Index.
The index ranks firms according to how they are addressing levels of carbon emissions and facing up to the challenges of climate change.
