Jaroka Tele-Healthcare Services for Lady Health Workers

 
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Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
Pakistan
Partners: 
NUST Institute of Information Technology Pakistan;USAID, HEC and ISIF Foundation
UM Healthcare Trust;
Association of Pakistani Physicians in North America (APPNA);
Cyber.net;
USAID;
HEC and ISIF Foundation;
Activities: 

Lady Health Workers (LHW) are government-trained healthcare workers who operate out of their homes in rural areas of Pakistan providing primary and maternal care. The project launched in 2008 aimed to utilize mobile platforms to extend tele-healthcare based services in rural Mardan, including SMS, MMS, GPRS/Edge and VSAT, to extend medical advice to LHW in the field by connecting them to a network of specialists. LHW could also download short audio and video files with latest medical advances and quick training sessions. Once successfully deployed in Mardan, it was planned to extend the project to other districts of Pakistan.

Further reading: 

UM Healthcare Trust 2011, Jaroka Tele Healthcare in rural Mardan

UM Healthcare Trust, Projects

[last updated: 20 Dec. 2012]

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