Once those beds were full, its clinical commissioning group funded the next available bed out of the county and facilitated transfer back as soon as a bed was available, it said.

BBC: Man with hands on face

At the airport, the completion of the 272-room Montreal Airport Marriott in 2009 atop the US departure terminal means the transfer time from bed to check-in desk can be less than two minutes.

BBC: Business trip: Montreal

So we worked with Sumitomo, UNICEF and helped find who we thought was the most extraordinary bed-net manufacturer with the traditional nets and financed the technology transfer and then provided a lot of management assistance on the side.

FORBES: Transcript: Jacqueline Novogratz