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Every year nearly 6 million people die in developing countries from low quality healthcare - this is how we help them

A sick Pakistani baby, who is a victim of the flood, holds the finger of her mother after being given first aid at a hospital in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 4, 2010. The flooding has destroyed cropland and livestock and displaced millions of people, causing damage the government has estimated at $43 billion, or almost one quarter of the South Asian nation's 2009 GDP.    REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E6941T6301

In low and middle-income countries, 5.7 million people die every year from poor quality healthcare Image: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Gabriel Goldschmidt
Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Muhammad Ali Pate
Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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