As one of the leaders in corporate chains of diagnostic laboratories in India, Metropolis Healthcare marks its presence with great value and trust in pathological testing. Backed by strong technological support, the company is offering the best of the services and focussing into research and development.
Mobile phones may be a key weapon in the war against HIV and AIDS in Africa according to the UNAIDS chief. Mobile phone technology has a key role to play in a continent plagued by inadequate health centres and dilapidated infrastructure as this kind of epidemic cannot be beat with mere facility based approach.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved USD 279 million in new grants for India, taking total funds for the world’s second-most populous country to more than USD 1.1 billion.
Nigerian health sector is yet to fully witness the emulation of these tools to provide efficient health services.
The Telemedicine network at Amrita Institute of Medical Science has begun extending its services beyond India
In what is the world’s first Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), India has completed documenting over two lakh medical
formulations of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani to save them from piracy.
Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa.
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors in Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India, study X-rays and laboratory results being transmitted by doctors from Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Flipping between charts, they use light pens to point out important features. They can see each other in windows on their screens, while medical charts fill the rest of the display.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Nigerian space agency conducts telemedicine program using orbiting satellite and AMD telemedicine equipment.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
There is a need to provide connectivity and access to the much needed and poorly distributed health knowledge and expertise within the health system in Sub-Saharan Africa.
