The Postmaster-General of NIPOST who spoke last week in Lagos during a stakeholders engagement meeting with Telecom CEOs in Nigeria in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications told the audience in attendance that the post office network is arguably the best platform for achieving digital inclusion of the rural populace in Nigeria.
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Addressing the opening session, the Minister of Science and Technology, Alhaji Alhassan Bako Zaku disclosed that the success recorded by the pilot project of Telemedicine had been acknowledged by the various state governments in the country leading to the directive given to their various ministries of health to set up their networks to reach the rural areas and enhance referral systems.
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The training programme is to hold over the next 12 months.
Representatives of the two organizations made these known at a two-day stakeholders' forum which held in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, last week.
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The experts, who gathered at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan for a workshop titled ‘Telemedicine: Future and Challenges in Nigeria’, said telemedicine seeks to bridge the gap of access to good health between the rural and urban dwellers, describing it as ‘a confluence of communication technology, information technology, bio-medical engineering and medical science.
According to Ukodie, there is need for a more concerted effort to push the frontier of broadband development in Nigeria because of its impact on gross domestic product (GDP) current global focus.
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