With the help of this system, specialist doctors can examine patients that are located far away from their offices and recommend doctors located in those districts how to treat the concerned patient, a meeting held on Saturday to review this system was informed.
This project was launched in March 2005 under the name of “Hope” in Nawabshah, Hyderabad, Larkana, Badin and Sukkur districts while Karachi was the hub of this project.
The government has now decided to make the Benazir Medical University (BMU) - previously known as Chandka Medical College, Larkana - Liaquat Hospital Hyderabad and Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) as the main hubs of this project, the minister said.
The department will hold another meeting to finalise the proposed draft as the feasibility report had already been prepared, he said.
After a discussion on the proposed draft, the committee would recommend its approval. The committee has also invited the representative of Pak-Sat (the National Satellite) to share their ideas, the minister said.
He hoped that the telemedicine system would provide top notch facilities to people living in the rural and far flung areas of the province and that approaching experts would be made easier for these people.
He said that six centres had already been working where the people were getting facilities in their respective areas, adding that the provision of the latest health facilities to the masses was the priority of the government.
He said that, using this technique, preliminary diagnosis could be conducted easily.
The government will provide facilities of telecardiology, telepathology, teledermotology and robotic telesurgery with the help of this system.
Dr Sagheer admitted that the first and foremost requirement was qualified doctors and the government is working to appoint qualified doctors to make this system successful.
---
Quelle/Source: The News International, 01.12.2008
