COMSATS through its Tele-Health services has provided treatment facilities to over 50,000 patients so far including 80 percent of women belonged to the resource constraints marginalized communities.
Project Manager Telehealth, COMSATS Internet Services, Dr. Nadia Rasheed in an interview with APP informed that Tele-Health is a mode of delivering healthcare facilities of medical consultation, diagnosis and treatment to patients using Information and Technologies (ICTs).
COMSATS Internet Services (CIS) is a pioneer of Tele-Health in Pakistan and has established a network of rural Tele-health clinics in Islamabad, Swabi, Quetta, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Gwadar, Khairpur, Musakhail and Rawalpindi to provide healthcare facility to the marginalized segments.
She informed that the paramedics at the connected tele-health clinics assist the medical specialist at CIS Tele-health resource center through video conferencing to carry out interactive history followed by complete check up using digital diagnostic tools such as digital stethoscope, vital signs monitor, examination camera, ultrasound probe, ECG glove etc.
She said that patient data collected during initial checkup by the paramedic staff can be viewed simultaneously by the doctor at CIS Telehealth center in Islamabad. She continued that the doctor then provides medical consultation to the patient and transmits prescription to the remote end, a print out of which is given to the patient by paramedic staff.—APP
