The Project Administrator, Agapati Sanday, told the 'Daily News' in Mwanza City that the initiative was meant to improve health services. "Apart from communication, there will be e-leaning service as well as the processing and transmission of information between selected primary medical centres of Mwanza and Dodoma regions," Sanday said.
He added that e-Health will support delivery of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) care through connectivity and linkages in health facilities. Sanday noted that more specifically e-Health will facilitate capacity building of health workers and improve diagnosis and treatment at primary health facilities.
He said, for example, the programme's network infrastructure aim to connect two primary medical centres to the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar as Salaam and local government facilities will use e-health, telegraphic medical, e-learning and health informatics.
Using tele-health, the synchronous live video conferencing will be used for tele-consultations between primary medical centres and Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam. This system will be used by doctors at primary medical centres to consult specialists at Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam and government facilities on radiology or dermatology images.
He said that for e-learning, continuing professional development opportunities will be provided for health workers who would otherwise not have access to such training away from their locations.
And health informatics would be implemented for primary medical centres and linkages with government health management information service and this will facilitate sharing of reliable health information to aid health managers and clinicians in making better decisions.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Moses Matthew
Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 21.03.2013
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